A Panel Data Approach for Income-Health Causality

Erkan Erdil () and Ibrahim Yetkiner ()

No FNU-47, Working Papers from Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University

Abstract: This study provides evidence on income-health causality by employing a large micro panel data set with a VAR representation. The findings verify that dominant type of causality is bidirectional which cast doubt on the performance OLS estimates in the literature. Moreover, one-way causality pattern is not similar for different income groups. One-way causality generally runs from income to health in low- and middle-income countries whereas the reverse holds for high-income countries.

Keywords: Income; Health; Granger Causality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C20 I10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2004-04, Revised 2004-04
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