How much does disease depress development in human capital and income around the
world? I discuss a range of micro evidence, which finds that health is both human capital …

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 …

Mexico is reaching universal health coverage in 2012. A national health insurance
programme called Seguro Popular, introduced in 2003, is providing access to a package of …

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic
return to population health. The macro-based approach tends to yield estimates that are …

This paper investigates the effect of population health on gross inflows of foreign direct
investment (FDI). We conduct a panel data analysis of 74 industrialized and developing …

Growth regressions adapted as Granger-type causality tests give strong evidence of 30-year
causality from health to income in 18 Latin American countries. The health indicator is …

The benefits due to improving health in the last century are obvious and far reaching. Yet
there is little agreement on how to quantify these benefits and compare them to the costs of …

We use development accounting techniques to assess the contribution of health to
differences in income per capita among countries. Rather than rely on regressions in …

'Beyond Survival'breaks new ground in the ongoing debate about health finance and
financial protection from the costs of health care. The evidence and discussion support the …

We use data from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS) in the
Philippines to link vaccination in the first 2 years of life with later physical and cognitive …