Health and healthcare systems interrelate with the economy in a number or ways, but the multiple causal mechanisms that … define this relationship divide naturally into two categories. The first comprises the linkages between health and the growth … rate and distribution of income. The second concerns the relationships among healthcare delivery institutions, health …

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 …

This paper examines the causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Using an instrumental … for cities that are farther from the COVID-19 epicenter, are exposed to less migration, have more responsive public health … systems, and have higher-capacity utilization of health systems. Social distancing and a less burdened health system are …

Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We … show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic … growth. We argue that such an effect is likely, primarily because childhood health affects adult productivity. In our …