Strittmatter, Anthony; Sunde, Uwe - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 4, pp. 1549-1584
systems had a significant immediate effect on health dynamics proxied by infant mortality and crude death rates. The findings …This paper investigates the causal effect of improvements in health on economic development using a long panel of … European countries. Identification is based on the particular timing of the introduction of public health care systems in …