focus of analysis beyond traditional health outcomes to include measures of human capital, including labor supply … importance of health and human capital as an engine for economic growth, these findings underscore the role of environmental …

Saving is essential to the health of economies because it provides the wherewithal for investment. In the late … nineteenth century, saving was also essential to the health of urban working-class households. This study brings together … authorities, and health commissioners to illuminate the connections between household savings and health improvements …

health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life … hope that economic growth will improve people's health as well as their material living conditions. I argue that the … poverty reduction, there is no evidence that it will deliver automatic health improvements in the absence of appropriate …

I use microeconomic estimates of the effect of health on individual outcomes to construct macroeconomic estimates of … the proximate effect of health on GDP per capita. I employ avariety of methods to construct estimates of the return to … health, which I combine with cross-country and historical data on height, adult survival rates, and age at menarche. Using my …

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the effects of health on economic growth. The micro … economic return on health. We reconcile these two strands of literature by showing that the point estimate of the macroeconomic … effect of health is quantitatively close to that found by aggregating the microeconomic effects, when carefully specifying …

We present evidence showing that the course of economic growth and of health, as measured by stature, Body Mass Index … twentieth. To analyze the change in welfare resulting from changes in health, we estimate a Human Development Index and a Borda … Civil War the increase in income was insufficient to compensate for the decline in health, whereas improvements in health …

experience and health. Our main result is that good health has a positive, sizable, and statistically significant effect on …

This paper revisits the relationship between health and growth in light of modern endogenous growth theory. We propose … a unified framework that encompasses the growth effects of both the rate of improvement of health and the level of … health. Based on cross-country regressions over the period 1960-2000, where we instrument for both variables, we find that a …