Aghion, Philippe; Howitt, Peter; Murtin, Fabrice - 2010
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, we find that a higher initial level and a higher rate …