Productive Benefits of Health: Evidence from Low-Income Countries
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Keywords
health human capital; wage productivity; Brazil-Ghana-Cote D’Ivoire;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2005-02-13 (Africa)
- NEP-EDU-2005-02-13 (Education)
- NEP-HEA-2005-02-13 (Health Economics)
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