Well-being is increasingly viewed as a multidimensional phenomenon, of which income is only one facet. In this paper I focus on another one, health, and look at its synthetic measure, life expectancy at birth, and its relationship with per capita income. International trends of life expectancy...

This paper models the equilibrium dynamics of Malaria disease and aggregate income. It incorporates utility maximizing private human-host behaviors regarding malaria related health care investments. The paper contrasts how economic and biological epidemiology models differ in their predictions...