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 …

that social policy and greater equality may actually contribute to higher productivity growth. Richard Harris surveys two …

the health-productivity relationship with an emphasis on the public policy implications. This relationship goes well … Grossman model, the author describes three additional pathways through which health can affect productivity at an aggregate … beyond the obvious effect of health on capacity to work both in terms of energy level and working time. Focusing on the …

between population, education, health and social divergence and productivity. In the fourth section, three papers address the …Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of …

It is still an open question whether increasing life expectancy as such is causing higher health care expenditures (HCE … population forecast for Germany is used to isolate the effect of demographic ageing on real per-capita HCE over the next decades. …

which population ageing does not lead to an increase in per capita health care expenditures (HCE) because the observed … positive correlation between age and health care expenditures (HCE) in cross-sectional data is exclusively due to the facts … studies have been rather mixed. In light of the imminent population ageing in many of these countries it is still being …

It is still an open question whether increasing life expectancy as such is causing higher health care expenditures (HCE … basis of an official population forecast for Germany is used to isolate the effect of demographic ageing on real per …

It is still an open question whether increasing life expectancy as such is causing higher health care expenditures (HCE … population forecast for Germany is used to isolate the effect of demographic ageing on real per-capita HCE over the next decades. …