TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bloom,David E.
AU  - Canning,David
AU  - Kotschy,Rainer
AU  - Prettner,Klaus
AU  - Schünemann,Johannes J.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - June 2019; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the effects of health on economic growth. The micro-based approach tends to find smaller effects than the macro-based approach, thus presenting a micro-macro puzzle regarding the economic return on health. We reconcile these two strands of literature by showing that the point estimate of the macroeconomic effect of health is quantitatively close to that found by aggregating the microeconomic effects, when carefully specifying the estimation equations and controlling for spillovers of health at the aggregate level. Our results justify using the micro-based approach to estimate the direct economic benefits of health interventions
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w26003
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w26003
ER  -