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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE
卷 53, 期 3, 页码 503-570出版社
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
DOI: 10.1257/jel.53.3.503
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- NIH [R01 AG19637, P01 AG10120]
- NICDH [R24HD041022]
I discuss the health transition in the United States, bringing new data to bear on health indicators and investigating the changing relationship between health, income, and the environment. I argue that scientific advances played an outsize role and that health improvements were largest among the poor. Health improvements were not a precondition for modern economic growth. The gains to health are largest when the economy has moved from brawn to brains because this is when the wage returns to education are high, leading the healthy to obtain more education. More education may improve use of health knowledge, producing a virtuous cycle.
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