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Contribution of health to economic development: a survey and overview
Husain, Muhammad Jami - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
The policies for better health, poverty reduction, and less inequality, throughout the world, require thorough understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income). This is deemed difficult, contingent, and only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103349
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Bayesian Demographic Modeling and Forecasting: An Application to U.S. Mortality
Reichmuth, Wolfgang; Sarferaz, Samad - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2008
We present a new way to model age-specific demographic variables with the example of age-specific mortality in the U … jointly with the latent variables underlying mortality of all age classes. In contrast to previous models, a similar … forecasts for particular age classes. A structural analysis of the relationship between age-specific mortality and covariates is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784846
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Contribution of health to economic development: A survey and overview
Husain, Muhammad Jami - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010), pp. 1-52
The policies for better health, poverty reduction, and less inequality, throughout the world, require thorough understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income). This is deemed difficult, contingent, and only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509071
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Le bénéfice de la santé. Un apport des théories de la croissance endogène
Aghion, Philippe; Howitt, Peter; Murtin, Fabrice - In: Revue de l'OFCE n° 112 (2010) 1, pp. 87-108
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 accumulation and the level of health. Based on cross-country regressions where we instrument for both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615377
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Explaining the Cross-National Time Series Variation in Life Expectancy: Income, Women’s Education, Shifts, and What Else?
Pritchett, Lant; Viarengo, Martina - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
This paper examines the variation across countries and evolution over time of life expectancy. Using historical data going back to the beginning of the 20th century several basic facts about the relationship between national income and life expectancy are established. The paper shows that even...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674292
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Does retirement age impact mortality?
Hernaes, Erik; Markussen, Simen; Piggott, John; Vestad, … - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 3, pp. 586-598
The relationship between retirement and mortality is studied with a unique administrative data set covering the full … substitution, for example into the disability pension. Instrumental variables estimation results show no effect on mortality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010870811
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Does Retirement Age Impact Mortality?
Hernaes, Erik; Markussen, Simen; Piggott, John; Vestad, Ola - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2012
This paper studies the relationship between retirement and mortality, using a unique administrative data set covering … instrumental variables estimation we find that retirement age has no effect on mortality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010819022
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Education and Mortality in India
Motkuri, Venkatanarayana; Mishra, Uday Shankar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The present paper made an attempt to understand the impact schooling/education on the mortality rate in India, in a … developing country context. Present study aims at looking into differences in mortality rate by the status of completion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113814
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Disease and Development Revisited
Bloom, David; canning, david; Fink, Günther - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
In a recent paper, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) argue that the large increases in population health witnessed in the 20th century may have lowered income levels. We argue that this result depends crucially on their assumption that initial health and income do not affect subsequent economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079142
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Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
obtain estimates of mortality by disease before the 1940s from the League of Nations and national public health sources …. Using these data, we construct an instrument for changes in life expectancy, referred to as predicted mortality, which is … based on the pre-intervention distribution of mortality from various diseases around the world and dates of global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088586