The transition from stagnation to growth and the associated phenomenon of the great
divergence have been the subject of an intensive research in the growth literature in recent …

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 …

Africa is poised on the edge of a potential takeoff to sustained economic growth. This takeoff
can be abetted by a demographic dividend from the changes in population age structure …

It is not a gainsaying that challenges to both healthy living and the environment are the
result of deteriorating environmental quality with the attendant effect on environmental …

We exploit the major international health improvements from the 1940s to estimate the effect
of life expectancy on economic performance. We construct predicted mortality using …

I use microeconomic estimates of the effect of health on individual outcomes to construct
macroeconomic estimates of the proximate effect of health on GDP per capita. I employ a …

This chapter examines the relationship between health and economic growth. Across
countries, income per capita is highly correlated with health, as measured by life expectancy …

This paper investigates the hypothesis that the causal effect of life expectancy on income per
capita growth is non-monotonic. This hypothesis follows from the recent literature on unified …

Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult
mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. Paying careful attention to …

This paper re-examines health-growth relationship using an unbalanced panel of 17
advanced economies for the period 1870–2013 and employs panel generalised method of …