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The consequences of population health for economic performance
Alsan, Marcella; Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; … - In: Health, economic development and household poverty : …, (pp. 21-39). 2008
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Public capital, health persistence and poverty traps
Agénor, Pierre-Richard - In: Journal of economics 115 (2015) 2, pp. 103-131
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Decomposing social indicators using distributional data
Bidani, Benu - In: Journal of econometrics 77 (1997) 1, pp. 125-139
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The Contribution of Female Health to Economic Development
Bloom, David E. - 2015
We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …
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The Contribution of Female Health to Economic Development
Bloom, David E. - 2015
We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018319
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The contribution of female health to economic development
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 130 (2020) 630, pp. 1650-1677
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The Contribution of Female Health to Economic Development
Bloom, David E. - 2015
We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we … investments in their education and in which we allow for health-related gender differences in productivity. We show that better … female health speeds up the demographic transition and thereby the take-off toward sustained economic growth. By contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457257
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Optimal retirement with increasing longevity
Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Moore, Michael J. - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 116 (2014) 3, pp. 838-858
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Health and economic growth
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2018
Economists increasingly accept that social norms have powerful effects on human behavior and outcomes. In recent history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender households. As women have entered the labor market in...
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Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator : inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income
Bloom, David E.; Fan, Victoria Y.; Kufenko, Vadim; … - 2020
life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …
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