About the Editors and Contributors
1. Health Investments and Economic Growth: Macroeconomic Evidence and Microeconomic Foundations
2. Health and Economic Growth: Policy Reports and the Making of Policy Sir
3. Population Health and Economic Growth
4. Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth
5. Disease and Development: Evidence from Hookworm Eradication in the American South
6. Early Life Nutrition and Subsequent Education, Health, Wage, and Intergenerational Effects
1.1. Health Improvements and the Advent of Barefoot Doctors in China
1.2. The Preston Curve, 2001
1.3. Normalized Cross-Country Standard Deviations of Health and Income, 1960-2004
1.4. Income Growth and Infant Mortality Rate Reductions in China and India, 1960-2000
1.5. Cognitive or Schooling Deficits Associated with Moderate Stunting in Children Less Than Three Years Old from Six Longitudinal Studies
1.6. Returns to Different Levels of Education Based on Family Background
1.7. Returns to Different Levels of Education and Family Background
1.8. Absentee Rates among Health Workers in Select Countries, 1989-2003
2.1. Tons of Ore Mined per Worker per Day, 1923
2.2. Relationship between Output per Worker and Nutritional Status in Denmark
2.3. Growth Rate of Income per Capita. 1965-94
2.4. Age-Adjusted Death Rate per 100,000 Population from Diabetes in Caribbean and North American Countries, 2000
3.1. Income and Life Expectancy, 2005
3.2. Population in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Age, 1960-2040
3.3. Population in East Asia, by Age, 1950-2060
4.1. Log Life Expectancy at Birth for Initially Rich, Middle-Income, and Poor Countries, Base Sample
4.2. Log GDP per Capita for Initially Rich, Middle-Income, and Poor Countries, Base Sample
4.3. Change in Log Life Expectancy and Change in Predicted Mortality, 1940-80, Base Sample