A5007317974- Global Health Care Issues
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Economic theories and models
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Birth, Development, and Health
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Economic Theory and Policy
Harvard University Press
2008-2024
Harvard University
2014-2024
Harvard Global Health Institute
2015-2024
Bridge University
2020
Withybush General Hospital
2020
National University of Singapore
2017-2019
Boston University
2007-2016
World Health Organization
2016
Duke University
2016
China Population and Development Research Center
2015
Empirical studies show that health improvements provide a significant boost to economic growth in developing countries. This leads the view health, like education, is fundamental component of human capital, and suggests notion health-led growth. Better higher income, but there also positive feedback effect, giving rise beneficial situation where income are mutually reinforcing.
This report reviews the debate over effects of demographic change on economic growth and examines research evidence impact changes in age structure. It also relationship between population development particular regions world including Middle East North Africa. Finally it discusses how structure interact with labor-market health education policies to contribute growth. (excerpt)
Journal Article Implications of population ageing for economic growth Get access David E. Bloom, Bloom Search other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Canning, Canning Günther Fink * *Harvard School Public Health, e-mails: dbloom@hsph.harvard.edu, dcanning@hsph.harvard.edu, gfink@hsph.harvard.edu Review Economic Policy, Volume 26, Issue 4, Winter 2010, Pages 583–612, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grq038 Published: 01 December 2010
We estimate the effect of fertility on female labor force participation in a panel countries using abortion legislation as an instrument for fertility. find that removing legal restrictions significantly reduces and that, average, birth woman’s supply by almost 2 years during her reproductive life. Our results imply behavioral change, form increased supply, contributes to economic growth demographic transition when declines.
The proportion of a country's population living in urban areas is highly correlated with its level income. Urban offer economies scale and richer market structures, there strong evidence that workers are individually more productive, earn more, than rural workers. However, rapid urbanization also associated crowding, environmental degradation, other impediments to productivity. Overall, we find no the affects rate economic growth. Our findings weaken rationale for either encouraging or...
We investigate the consequences of various types infrastructure provision in a panel countries from 1950 to 1992. develop new tests which enable us isolate sign and direction long‐run effects manner that is robust presence unknown heterogeneous short‐run causal relationships. show while does tend cause economic growth, there substantial variation across countries. also provide evidence each type provided at close growth‐maximizing level on average globally, but under‐supplied some...
Objective To examine the association between maternal age at first birth and infant mortality, stunting, underweight, wasting, diarrhoea anaemia in children low- middle-income countries. Design Cross-sectional analysis of nationally representative household samples. A modified Poisson regression model is used to estimate unadjusted adjusted RR ratios. Setting Low- Population First births women aged 12–35 where this occurred 12–60 months prior interview. The sample for analysing mortality...
The share of the population aged 60 and over is projected to increase in nearly every country world during 2005-2050.Population ageing will tend lower both labor-force participation savings rates, thereby raising concerns about a future slowing economic growth.Our calculations suggest that OECD countries are likely see modest -but not catastrophic -declines rate growth.However, behavioral responses (including greater female labor force participation) policy reforms an legal age retirement)...
The rapid aging of populations around the world presents an unprecedented set challenges: shifting disease burden, increased expenditure on health and long-term care, labor-force shortages, dissaving, potential problems with old-age income security. We view longer life spans, particularly healthy as enormous gain for human welfare. challenges come from fact that our current institutional social arrangements are unsuited demographics; proposed solution is therefore to change institutions...
Cohort Profile : Health and Ageing in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community South Africa (HAALSI)
Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return population health.The approach tends yield estimates that are either negative close zero or positive an order of magnitude larger than range derived from approach.This presents a micro-macro puzzle regarding health.We reconcile two by controlling for indirect effects health, which usually include but deliberately omit when isolating direct effect health.Our results show health lies in plausible...
Abstract We add health and longevity to a standard model of life‐cycle saving show that, under plausible assumptions, increases in life expectancy lead higher savings rates at every age, even when retirement is endogenous. In stationary population these are offset by increased old age dependency, but during the disequilibrium phase, rising, effect on aggregate can be substantial. find empirical support for this using cross‐country panel national rates.
We analyze the fluctuations in gross domestic product (GDP) of 152 countries for period 1950--1992. find that (i) distribution annual growth rates a given GDP decays with ``fatter'' tails than Gaussian, and (ii) width scales as power law scaling exponent $\ensuremath{\beta}\ensuremath{\approx}0.15$. Both findings are surprising agreement results on firm growth. These consistent hypothesis evolution organizations complex structure is governed by similar mechanisms.
Journal Article A Database of World Stocks Infrastructure, 1950–95 Get access David Canning Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Bank Economic Review, Volume 12, Issue 3, September 1998, Pages 529–547, https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/12.3.529 Published: 01 1998