Arbeitspapier
Disease and Development Revisited
Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic growth. We argue that such an effect is likely, primarily because childhood health affects adult productivity. In our augmented model, which includes initial health, the instrumental variable proposed by Acemoglu and Johnson has no significant predictive power for improvements in health and does not identify the effect of contemporaneous improvements in health on economic growth.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7391
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Health: General
Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
- Thema
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health
development
economic growth
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bloom, David E.
Canning, David
Fink, Guenther
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2013
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bloom, David E.
- Canning, David
- Fink, Guenther
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2013
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