Howitt, Peter; MURTIN, Fabrice; Aghion, Philippe - In: Review of Economics and Institutions 2 (2011) 1
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 rate of improvement of health and the level of … health. Based on cross-country regressions over the period 1960-2000, where we instrument for both variables, we find that a …