The contribution of publicly provided health to growth and productivity

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of public health expenditure on productivity. We develop an extension of the augmented Solow model, which includes education and health as a means of explaining productivity. We run conditional convergence regressions for OECD countries, in order to ver...

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Autores principales:	Berta Rivera Castiñeira, Luis Currais Nunes
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Lenguaje:	EN PT
Publicado:	Universidade de São Paulo 2000
Materias:	growth government spending human capital health Economics as a science HB71-74
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1cb5a68be4884c09a8326415fb9c68622021-11-24T16:07:56ZThe contribution of publicly provided health to growth and productivity0101-41611980-5357https://doaj.org/article/1cb5a68be4884c09a8326415fb9c68622000-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.revistas.usp.br/ee/article/view/117642https://doaj.org/toc/0101-4161https://doaj.org/toc/1980-5357The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of public health expenditure on productivity. We develop an extension of the augmented Solow model, which includes education and health as a means of explaining productivity. We run conditional convergence regressions for OECD countries, in order to verify the extent to which government consumption and government investment in health enters into the model explaining productivity. The major conclusion of this research is that government consumption in health has consistently positive effects with respect to productivity, while government investment has no effect on productivity. Berta Rivera CastiñeiraLuis Currais NunesUniversidade de São Pauloarticlegrowthgovernment spendinghuman capitalhealthEconomics as a scienceHB71-74ENPTEstudos Econômicos, Vol 30, Iss 2 (2000)
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spellingShingle	growth government spending human capital health Economics as a science HB71-74 Berta Rivera Castiñeira Luis Currais Nunes The contribution of publicly provided health to growth and productivity
description	The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of public health expenditure on productivity. We develop an extension of the augmented Solow model, which includes education and health as a means of explaining productivity. We run conditional convergence regressions for OECD countries, in order to verify the extent to which government consumption and government investment in health enters into the model explaining productivity. The major conclusion of this research is that government consumption in health has consistently positive effects with respect to productivity, while government investment has no effect on productivity.
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The contribution of publicly provided health to growth and productivity

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