Modeling the effects of health on economic growth.

By A. Bhargava, D. Jamison, Lawrence J. Lau, Christopher J. L. Murray. Journal of Health Economics, 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

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The Interrelations of Social Capital with Health and Mental Health (2001, background): “" Health and Mental Health Mechanisms for Building Social Capital It is accepted that improved health status contributes to enhancing human capital (World Bank 1993; Bhargava et al. 2001).”
Investigating the Relationship between Health and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of 5 Asian Countries (2010, background): “Another branch of this literature (Wheeler, 1980; Knowles and Owen, 1995, 1997; Webber, 2002; Bhargava et al., 2001; Chakraborty and Das, 2005; Arora, 2001) uses time series analysis and concludes that health is an important determinant of economic growth.”
Extending the concept of the resource curse: natural resources and public spending on health (2014, background): “Moreover, the growth promoting benefits from health have been argued to be especially important for poor countries (Bhargava et al., 2001).”
Resource rents and inclusive human development in developing countries (2021, background): “Ample literature has demonstrated the role of education (Mankiw et al., 1992; Maksymenko and Rabani, 2011; Qadri and Waheed, 2014) and health (Strauss and Thomas, 1998; Bhargava et al, 2001; Bloom et al., 2004; Jayadevan, 2021) on economic growth and development across various countries.”
Environment, Human Development and Economic Growth (2008, result): “The positive effects linked to INST and initial HD (especially life expectancy at birth) are consistently high, in line with other specific results on the effects of health conditions on economic growth (Bhargava et al., 2000).”
Public infrastructure and growth : new channels and policy implications (2006, neutral): “This is a key limitation of the studies of Bhargava et al. (2001), Balducci et al. (2004), Calderón and Servén (2004), Loayza, Fajnzylber, and Caldéron (2004), and Estache, Speciale, and Veredas (2005).24 Moreover, simulation exercises based on mispecified models to evaluate, say, infrastructure…”
What is infrastructure (2003, background): “…death, especially reproduction (cf. Bökemann 1990), - securing the existence of human beings (maintaining health and personal safety, cf. Bhargava et al. 2001), - guaranteeing the capability of work, the opportunity to earn and to spend an income, - enabling the acquisition and sale of…”
The Global Macroeconomic Impacts of COVID-19: Seven Scenarios (2020, positive): “…related to economic welfare and growth (Cuddington et al. 1994; Cuddington and Hancock 1994; Pritchett and Summers 2 Asian Economic Papers 1993; Bloom et al. 1998; Bhargava et al. 2001; WHO Commission on Macroeconomics and Health 2001; Robalino et al. 2002a; Robalino et al. 2002b; Haacker…”
Macroeconomics and health: investing in health for economic development (2002, background): “35 The correlation between better health and higher economic growth holds up even when additional economic variables are introduced to try to account for the cross-country patterns of growth (as in the work of Barro and Sala-i-Martin 1995; Bloom and Sachs 1998; Bhargava et al. 2001).”