There's More to Life Than Money: Exploring the Levels/Growth Paradox in Income and Health
This paper discusses historical and recent cross-country evidence relating income to measures of health. After a review of the literature on income and the quality of life, the paper looks at long-term historical evidence on the link between income change and health indicators. Using data on life ex...
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okr-10986-46172021-04-23T14:02:18Z There's More to Life Than Money: Exploring the Levels/Growth Paradox in Income and Health Kenny, Charles Macroeconomics: Production E230 Health Production I120 Fertility Family Planning Child Care INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Children Youth J130 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Religion: General, International, or Comparative N300 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 This paper discusses historical and recent cross-country evidence relating income to measures of health. After a review of the literature on income and the quality of life, the paper looks at long-term historical evidence on the link between income change and health indicators. Using data on life expectancy, infant mortality and income for a small subset of largely wealthy countries over the 1913-1999 period, the paper examines correlations between income and health at period start and end as well as using the growth of the variables. Using a larger set of data over the period 1975-2000, the paper repeats these tests, as well as looking for any evidence of a larger impact of income, when different data are used or the sample is split. Results suggest a strong cross-country link between income and health and considerable evidence of global improvements over time, but a comparatively weak relationship between improvements in income and improvements in health, even over the very long term. The paper discusses a model based on technology and institutions that might account for such results as well as some preliminary evidence in favour of such a model. 2012-03-30T07:28:50Z 2012-03-30T07:28:50Z 2009 Journal Article Journal of International Development 09541748 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4617 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article |
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Macroeconomics: Production E230 Health Production I120 Fertility Family Planning Child Care INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Children Youth J130 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Religion: General, International, or Comparative N300 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Kenny, Charles There's More to Life Than Money: Exploring the Levels/Growth Paradox in Income and Health |
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This paper discusses historical and recent cross-country evidence relating income to measures of health. After a review of the literature on income and the quality of life, the paper looks at long-term historical evidence on the link between income change and health indicators. Using data on life expectancy, infant mortality and income for a small subset of largely wealthy countries over the 1913-1999 period, the paper examines correlations between income and health at period start and end as well as using the growth of the variables. Using a larger set of data over the period 1975-2000, the paper repeats these tests, as well as looking for any evidence of a larger impact of income, when different data are used or the sample is split. Results suggest a strong cross-country link between income and health and considerable evidence of global improvements over time, but a comparatively weak relationship between improvements in income and improvements in health, even over the very long term. The paper discusses a model based on technology and institutions that might account for such results as well as some preliminary evidence in favour of such a model. |
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There's More to Life Than Money: Exploring the Levels/Growth Paradox in Income and Health |
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There's More to Life Than Money: Exploring the Levels/Growth Paradox in Income and Health |
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There's More to Life Than Money: Exploring the Levels/Growth Paradox in Income and Health |
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There's More to Life Than Money: Exploring the Levels/Growth Paradox in Income and Health |
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there's more to life than money: exploring the levels/growth paradox in income and health |
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