Health and economic development—evidence from the introduction of public health care

Anthony Strittmatter and Uwe Sunde

Journal of Population Economics, 2013, vol. 26, issue 4, 1549-1584

Abstract: This paper investigates the causal effect of improvements in health on economic development using a long panel of European countries. Identification is based on the particular timing of the introduction of public health care systems in different countries, which is the random outcome of a political process. We document that the introduction of public health care systems had a significant immediate effect on health dynamics proxied by infant mortality and crude death rates. The findings suggest that health improvements had a positive effect on growth in income per capita and aggregate income. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

Keywords: Health; Mortality; Economic development; Growth; Public health systems care; I10; J10; O11; N13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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