HOW MUCH OF CROSS-COUNTRY INCOME VARIATION IS EXPLAINED BY HEALTH?
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Shastry, Gauri Kartini; Weil, David N.
署名单位：
Harvard University; Brown University; National Bureau of Economic Research
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
ISSN/ISSBN：
1542-4766
DOI：
10.1162/154247603322391026
发表日期：
2003
页码：
387-396
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摘要：
We use development accounting techniques to assess the contribution of health to differences in income per capita among countries. Rather than rely on regressions in aggregate data, we build up estimates of the effect of health starting from microeconomic data. We examine both a particular condition, anemia, and a proxy for general health, the adult survival rate. We find that differences in anemia explain 1.3 percent of the log variance of income per capita, and that differences in adult survival explain 19 percent of the log variance of income per capita. The latter figure is almost one third of the variation in output that is left unexplained by other measures of factor accumulation. (JEL: O47, I10)
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