Health is a key component of human development. This paper looks at how health is measured, and the convergence of … health across countries. We argue that health measures should account for illness as well as mortality, but in practice life … expectancy as a reasonably proxy for population health. While health is improving we see two distinct groups of countries in the …

There is increasing evidence that early childhood health interventions have long term effects on cognitive development …

Health is a key component of the human development index. This paper looks at how health is measured, how the level of … health across countries is converging, and which countries are outliers to this global trend. We argue that conceptually … health measures should account for illness as well as mortality. However, in practice we show that population mortality and …

Health is both a direct component of human well-being and a form of human capital that increases an individual …'s capabilities. We argue that these two views are complementary and that both can be used to justify increased investment in health … in developing countries. In particular, we argue that the large effect improved health has on household incomes and …

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 …

In a recent paper, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) argue that the large increases in population health witnessed in the 20 … health and income do not affect subsequent economic growth. Using their data we reject this assumption in favor of a model of …, exogenous improvements in health due to technical advances associated with the epidemiological transition appear to have …

This study uses the second National Family Health Survey (NFHS-2) of India to estimate the effect of state public … health spending on mortality across all age groups, controlling for individual, household, and state-level covariates. We use … a state’s gross fiscal deficit as an instrument for its health spending. Our study shows a 10 % increase in public …

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 …