Arbeitspapier

Health and economic development: Evidence from the introduction of public health care

This paper investigates the causal effect of changes in health on economic development using a long panel of European countries. Identification is based on the particular timing of the introduction of public health care systems in different countries, which is the random outcome of a political process. We document that the introduction of public health care systems had a significant immediate effect on the dynamics of infant mortality and crude death rates. The findings suggest that a reduction in infant mortality or crude death rates exhibited a positive effect on growth in income per capita and increased population growth.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5901

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health: General
Demographic Economics: General
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Europe: Pre-1913
Thema
mortality
economic development
growth
public health care

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Strittmatter, Anthony
Sunde, Uwe
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2011

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201108152082
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Strittmatter, Anthony
  • Sunde, Uwe
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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