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There's More to Life Than Money: Exploring the Levels/Growth Paradox in Income and Health

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dc.contributor.authorKenny, Charles
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-30T07:28:50Z
dc.date.available2012-03-30T07:28:50Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThis paper discusses historical and recent cross-country evidence relating income to measures of health. After a review of the literature on income and the quality of life, the paper looks at long-term historical evidence on the link between income change and health indicators. Using data on life expectancy, infant mortality and income for a small subset of largely wealthy countries over the 1913-1999 period, the paper examines correlations between income and health at period start and end as well as using the growth of the variables. Using a larger set of data over the period 1975-2000, the paper repeats these tests, as well as looking for any evidence of a larger impact of income, when different data are used or the sample is split. Results suggest a strong cross-country link between income and health and considerable evidence of global improvements over time, but a comparatively weak relationship between improvements in income and improvements in health, even over the very long term. The paper discusses a model based on technology and institutions that might account for such results as well as some preliminary evidence in favour of such a model.en
dc.identifier.citationJournal of International Development
dc.identifier.issn09541748
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/4617
dc.language.isoEN
dc.relation.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.subjectMacroeconomics: Production E230
dc.subjectHealth Production I120
dc.subjectFertility
dc.subjectFamily Planning
dc.subjectChild Care
dc.subjectINTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Children
dc.subjectYouth J130
dc.subjectEconomic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Religion: General, International, or Comparative N300
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Human Resources
dc.subjectHuman Development
dc.subjectIncome Distribution
dc.subjectMigration O150
dc.titleThere's More to Life Than Money: Exploring the Levels/Growth Paradox in Income and Healthen
dc.title.alternativeJournal of International Developmenten
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.typeArticle de journalfr
dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
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okr.identifier.externaldocumentum1011
okr.journal.nbpages24-41
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
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