The long‐term impact of health on economic growth in Mexico, 1950–1995

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Is Health Wealth? Results of a Panel Data Analysis

“…For Latin America and the Caribbean, health, measured as the probability of surviving to the next age group, has a strong long-term relationship with growth (Mayer 2001a). Using life expectancy and mortality rates as health indicators for different age groups, an estimate of the direct relationship between health and growth in Mexico from indicates that health is responsible for approximately one third of long-term economic growth (Mayer 2001b). There are also several microeconomic studies that find a direct impact of adult health on productivity and income though the correlation is weaker than that found in comparative or historical study findings at national or regional levels (Moock and Leslie, 1986;Glewwe and Jacoby, 1995;Glewwe et al, 2001;Paxson and Schady, 2004).…”

The Long-Term Impact of Human Capital Investment on GDP: A Panel Cointegrated Regression Analysis

“…According to this alternative model, they find the result that human capital positively affects the growth rate of total factor productivity. Besides these studies, lots of empirical studies are made to determine the human capital and growth relationship [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. While education expenditures and schooling are exploited as education indicators, health expenditures and life expectancy at birth stand out as health indicators in most of these studies.…”

Capital humano y pobreza regional en Perú

“…Alleyne y Cohen (2003) y Lawson (2004) especifican que la mejora en el estado de salud de la población contribuye a reducir la pobreza. En el mismo sentido, en tanto que los estudios realizados por Akram, Padda y Khan (2008); Arora (2001); Barro (1996); Bhargava Jamison, Lau y Murray (2001); Howit (2005); Kalemli-Ozcan, Ryder y Weil (2000); Mayer (2001) y Weil (2005), entre otros, encuentran una fuerte influencia de los indicadores de salud sobre el crecimiento económico de los países, se establece que también la mejora en los indicadores de la salud coadyuvan a la reducción de la pobreza, mediante el canal del efecto crecimiento.…”