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Empowering Pakistan's economy : the role of health and education in shaping labor force participation and economic growth
Umair, Muhammad; Ahmad, Waqar; Hussain, Babar; Fortea, … - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 5, pp. 1-21
how this impact depends on the levels of health and education expenditures. We analyze time series data from Pakistan …. Furthermore, the estimations reveal that better facilities for health and education strengthen the positive effects of LF on EG …. This suggests a complementary relationship between health, education, and LF in driving EG. Moreover, our findings …
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Growing richer and taller: Explaining Change in the Distribution of Child Nutritional Status during Vietnam’s Economic Boom
O'Donnell, Owen; Nicolás, Ángel López; van … - 2007
Over a five-year period in the 1990s Vietnam experienced annual economic growth of more than 8% and a decrease of 15 points in the proportion of children chronically malnourished (stunted). We estimate the extent to which changes in the distribution of child nutritional status can be explained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325368
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Brain gain: claims about its size and impact on welfare and growth are greatly exaggerated
Schiff, Maurice - 2005
education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, larger than the brain drain itself, and that … such a net brain gain results in an increase in welfare and growth due to education's positive externalities. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267439
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Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369257
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Natural selection and the evolution of life expectancy
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - 2004
This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the intricate time path of life expectancy in the process of development, shedding new light on the origin of the remarkable rise in life expectancy since the Agricultural Revolution. The theory argues that social, economic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318901
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Investing in health for economic development: The case of Mexico
Lustig, Nora - 2006
Health is an asset with an intrinsic value as well as an instrumental value. Good health is a source of wellbeing and highly valued throughout the world. Health is not only the absence of illness, but capacity to develop a person’s potential. Health is also an important determinant of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284759
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Childhood mortality and economic growth
Bhalotra, Sonia - 2006
This paper investigates the extent to which the decline in child mortality over the last three decades can be attributed to economic growth. In doing this, it exploits the considerable variation in growth over this period, across states and over time. The analysis is able to condition upon a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284804
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Poverty and survival
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312901
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The impact of an economic boom on the level and distribution of well-being : Ireland, 1994 - 2001
Madden, David - 2010 - Revised Version: April 2010
The impact of increased affluence on life satisfaction is a matter of some controversy. This paper examines the impact of the recent economic boom in Ireland upon the level and distribution of various domains of well-being. There is evidence of a substantial increase in life satisfaction in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726074
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Inclusive institutions and long-run misallocation
Galor, Oded; Munshiy, Kaivan; Wilson, Nicholas - 2013
This research advances the hypothesis that resource abundant economies characterized by a socially cohesive workforce and network externalities triggered the emergence of efficiency-enhancing inclusive institutions designed to restrict mobility and to enhance the attachment of community members...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197962