The effect of health on economic growth: A production function approach

被引：584

作者：

Bloom, DE ^{[1
]}

Canning, D ^{[1
]}

Sevilla, J ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Boston, MA USA

来源：

WORLD DEVELOPMENT | 2004年 / 32卷 / 01期

关键词：

economic growth; international health;

D O I：

10.1016/j.worlddev.2003.07.002

中图分类号：

F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

We estimate a production function model of aggregate economic growth including two variables that microeconomists have identified as fundamental components of human capital: work experience and health. Our main result is that good health has a positive, sizable, and statistically significant effect on aggregate output even when we control for experience of the workforce. We argue that the life expectancy effect in growth regressions appears to be a real labor productivity effect, and is not the result of life expectancy acting as a proxy for worker experience. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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