the determinants of education and health spending on the QG using quantile regressions to articulate least and best QG … performers. The following findings are established. First, on average, the effect of health (education) is decreasingly … (increasingly) positive from Hopefuls to Best Performers. Second, on within categories: (1) health spending has positive threshold …

Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using … decompositions to demonstrate that (i) in all countries except Austria, the income elasticity of health is positive and increases …

The positive cross-country correlation between health and economic growth is well-established, but the underlying … causality between health and economic growth is empirically challenging. Second, the relation between health and economic growth … changes over the process of economic development. Third, different dimensions of health (mortality vs. morbidity, children …

addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China's Great Famine on adult health and labor market … adult health, educational attainment and labor supply. The results show that exposure to famine had significant adverse … effects on adult health and work capacity. The magnitude of the effect is negatively correlated with age at the onset of the …

the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health … of the 33 countries in the Hopefuls category are in SSA. Second, the effect of health is decreasingly positive from … benefit countries in SSA to invest more in health relative to education now, but decrease such health expenditure and increase …

This chapter examines the relationship between health and economic growth. Across countries, income per capita is … highly correlated with health, as measured by life expectancy or a number of other indicators. Within countries, there is … also a correlation between people’s health and income. Finally, over time, the historical evolution of cross-country health …

This study estimates the impact of health capital on economic growth in 10 Balkan countries over the 2000-2019 period … results revealed that economic growth responds to short-term and long-term health capital changes. Estimation results indicate … a positive relationship between health capital and the economic growth of Balkan countries. According to the results …