On the Relation Between Health and Income: A Cross-Country Analysis

Kobylinski Katarina and Joanna Tyrowicz
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Kobylinski Katarina: Group for Research in Applied Economics (GRAPE), FAME; IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Deutsche Post Foundation; Faculty of Management, University of WarsawWarsawPoland

Central European Economic Journal, 2018, vol. 5, issue 52, 230-243

Abstract: An examination of the correlation between health and wealth cannot determine the direction of causality between the two. Countries’ geographic characteristics have an important effect on health, and they are plausibly uncorrelated with other determinants of wealth. This paper uses two climate variables – population-weighted temperature and precipitation – to obtain instrumental variables estimates of the effect of health on wealth.

Keywords: Health; wealth; causality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1515/ceej-2018-0020

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