| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w14449 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 14449 |
| When Does Improving Health Raise GDP? | |
| Quamrul H. Ashraf; Ashley Lester; David N. Weil | |
| 发表日期 | 2008-10-30 |
| 出版年 | 2008 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous health improvements on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for a direct effect of health on worker productivity, as well as indirect effects that run through schooling, the size and age-structure of the population, capital accumulation, and crowding of fixed natural resources. The model is parameterized using a combination of microeconomic estimates, data on demographics, disease burdens, and natural resource income in developing countries, and standard components of quantitative macroeconomic theory. We consider both changes in general health, proxied by improvements in life expectancy, and changes in the prevalence of two particular diseases: malaria and tuberculosis. We find that the effects of health improvements on income per capita are substantially lower than those that are often quoted by policy-makers, and may not emerge at all for three decades or more after the initial improvement in health. The results suggest that proponents of efforts to improve health in developing countries should rely on humanitarian rather than economic arguments. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Development and Growth ; Growth and Productivity |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14449 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572124 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Quamrul H. Ashraf,Ashley Lester,David N. Weil. When Does Improving Health Raise GDP?. 2008. |
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