Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/193233 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11939
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The positive cross-country correlation between health and economic growth is well-established, but the underlying mechanisms are complex and difficult to discern. Three issues are of central concern. First, assessing and disentangling 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's and women's health, and health at older ages) may have different economic effects.
Subjects: 
economic well-being
economic development
poverty traps
productivity
health
longevity
living standards
neoclassical and R&D-based growth
JEL: 
I10
J13
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
357.39 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.