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.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5901
Health: General
Demographic Economics: General
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Europe: Pre-1913
economic development
growth
public health care
Sunde, Uwe
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-201108152082
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:21 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Strittmatter, Anthony
- Sunde, Uwe
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2011