| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w19685
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 19685
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| Health and the Economy in the United States, from 1750 to the Present |
| Dora Costa
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| 发表日期 | 2013-11-27
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| 出版年 | 2013
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | I discuss the health transition in the United States, bringing new data to bear on health indicators, and investigating the changing relationship between health, income, and the environment. I argue that scientific advances played an outsize role and that health improvements were largest among the poor. Health improvements were not a precondition for modern economic growth. The gains to health are largest when the economy has moved from "brawn" to "brains" because this is when the wage returns to education are high, leading the healthy to obtain more education. More education may improve use of health knowledge, producing a virtuous cycle. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare
; Health
; History
; Labor and Health History
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w19685
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577360
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