Economic Growth and Life Expectancy: The Case of Iran

Mahyar, Hami

doi:10.1515/sbe-2016-0007

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“…The higher growth rate makes family affluent; household head can spend more for the better health of family members including females. This finding is similar to those of Rahman and Alam [ 8 ], Rahman et al [ 9 ], Wang et al [ 25 ], Mahyar [ 35 ], and Shahbaz et al [ 36 ]. The urbanization rate has a positive effect on female life expectancy but an insignificant effect on the female adult mortality rate because of improved urban health facilities, access to information, better living standards, better employment resources and higher incomes for all people.…”

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“…Wang et al [ 25 ] found that economic growth was positively linked with life expectancy in Pakistan by employing ARDL bounds test approach. Similar findings were also observed by Mahyar [ 35 ] for Iran, Ebenstein et al [ 37 ] for China, and Shahbaz et al [ 36 ] for 16 sub-Saharan African countries. Rahman et al [ 9 ] found that economic growth had a significant impact on increasing life expectancy and reducing the infant mortality rate but no significant impact on death rate in the case of 15 SAARC-ASEAN countries that employed fixed effects, random effects and GMM models.…”

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“…Economic growth ensures different health related advanced facilities and medical amenities that increase the health outcomes of people as observed in various works like [ 8 , 9 , 22 , 25 , 35 – 38 ]. Wang et al [ 25 ] found that economic growth was positively linked with life expectancy in Pakistan by employing ARDL bounds test approach.…”

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The role of access to electricity, female education, and public health expenditure on female health outcomes: evidence from SAARC-ASEAN countries

Rahman

Alam

2021

BMC Women's Health

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Background The importance of the status of female health should have research priority due to the unique medical needs of women. Hence this paper attempts to explore the nexus of access to electricity, female education, and public health expenditure with female health outcomes in the SAARC-ASEAN countries. Methods Using the data of 2002–2018, and applying the cross-sectional dependence test, Modified Wald test, Wooldridge test, the Panel corrected standard error (PCSE) model, the Feasible generalized least square (FGLS) model, and the pair-wise Granger causality test, the robust outcomes on female health are found. Results Access to electricity, female education rate, public health expenditure, economic growth, and immunization rate, all have a positive effect on female life expectancy at birth, and a negative effect on the female adult mortality rate. The urbanization rate has a significantly positive impact on female life expectancy at birth but an insignificant impact on female adult mortality rate. The one-way causal relationship between the variables are also revealed. Conclusions All the results are rational and have important milestone for the health sector. The health status of females should be improved and protected by formulating effective policies on access to electricity, female education, public health expenditure, immunization, economic growth, and urbanization.

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The role of access to electricity, female education, and public health expenditure on female health outcomes: evidence from SAARC-ASEAN countries

Rahman

Alam

2021

BMC Women's Health

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“…Azomahoo et al 8 , Husain 9 , Ecevit 10 , Ngangue and Manfred 11 have found positive relationship between LEB and economic growth and Cervellati and Sunde 12 have found positive relationship between LEB and economic growth after demographic transition analysing many countries together in their studies. Erdoğan and Bozkurt 13 , Akintunde et al 14 and Mahyar 15 , have found positive relationship between LEB and economic growth analysing a single country in their studies.…”

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Exploring the relationship between life expectancy at birth and economic growth in 56 developing countries

Gürler¹,

Özsoy²

2018

Journal of Global Health Reports

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Back Background groundHigher income per capita (IPC) means better access to public and private health services those are provided by public or private sectors in a country. Good health service which lowers mortality rates in a country promotes to reach a long living population level with a higher life expectancy at birth (LEB) and healthy labour force enhancing productivity. People feel themselves more productive with a good health care hence increasing productivity and working hours will cause an increase in IPC (economic growth) incessantly. In traditional economic growth theory, labour force which is one of the factors of production function has got an important effect on the country's economic growth. This study aims to investigate the relationship between LEB and IPC data and vice versa for 56 developing countries in North Africa, Middle-East and South-East Asia where most of them are Islamic countries and members of The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Methods MethodsCross-section data analysis and panel data analysis consisting random and fixed effects estimations were used in the study to investigate the relationship.

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“…Higher life expectancy facilitates rapid economic growth (Lorentzen et al, 2008). An individual who lives longer contributes to the progress of the economy (Mahyar, 2016). Increased productivity of available economic resources is built on the possibility of individual possessing higher life span.…”

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Is Financial Inclusion a Determinant of Life Expectancy? Evidence from West African Region

Adediyan¹

2021

SBE

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This study is a contribution to the debate on the significance of financial inclusion with much emphasis on its impacts on human life span. The sample used for the analyses consisted of 14 West African countries over the period 2010 and 2018. The study employed a dynamic 2-Step System GMM approach, and under different model specifications, control for public and private health expenditure, food production quality, population, access to electricity, and the number of people practicing open defecation. The estimated results, among others, showed considerable evidence of positive feedback of financial inclusion on human life span. As such, substantial improvement in the access to and use of financial services is key to a high life expectancy in the region.

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Economic Growth and Life Expectancy: The Case of Iran

Abstract: Abstract:Regarding the link between economic growth and it`s public outcomes, this paper studies the effect of economic growth on life expectancy in Iran during 1966Iran during -2013

Cited by 27 publications

References 19 publications

The role of access to electricity, female education, and public health expenditure on female health outcomes: evidence from SAARC-ASEAN countries

The role of access to electricity, female education, and public health expenditure on female health outcomes: evidence from SAARC-ASEAN countries

Exploring the relationship between life expectancy at birth and economic growth in 56 developing countries

Is Financial Inclusion a Determinant of Life Expectancy? Evidence from West African Region

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