@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp5901,
            	author={Strittmatter, Anthony and Sunde, Uwe},
            	title={Health and Economic Development: Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care},
            	year={2011},
	month={Aug},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={5901},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5901},
	abstract={This paper investigates the causal effect of changes 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 the dynamics of infant mortality and crude death rates. The findings suggest that a reduction in infant mortality or crude death rates exhibited a positive effect on growth in income per capita and increased population growth.},
	keywords={public health care;economic development;growth;mortality},
            }