%0 Report
        %A Strittmatter, Anthony
%A Sunde, Uwe
        %T Health and Economic Development: Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care
        %D 2011
        %8 2011 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 5901
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5901
        %X 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.
        %K public health care
%K economic development
%K growth
%K mortality