TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Strittmatter, Anthony
AU  - Sunde, Uwe
        TI  - Health and Economic Development: Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care
        PY  - 2011/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5901
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5901
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - public health care
KW  - economic development
KW  - growth
KW  - mortality
        ER  -