Health and Economic Growth

A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth

1992 • 14,820 citations

A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction

1992 • 6,497 citations

Handbook of Economic Growth

2005 • 4,519 citations

R & D-Based Models of Economic Growth

1995 • 2,976 citations

Broken Limits to Life Expectancy

2002 • 2,691 citations

The Production of Human Capital and the Life Cycle of Earnings

1967 • 2,668 citations

Debt, Deficits, and Finite Horizons

1985 • 2,298 citations

The world economy: a millennial perspective

2001 • 2,039 citations

Does Schooling Cause Growth?

2000 • 1,893 citations

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2003 • 1,757 citations

Massive IQ gains in 14 nations: What IQ tests really measure.

1987 • 1,756 citations

The lasting impact of childhood health and circumstance

2005 • 1,650 citations

Economic Status and Health in Childhood: The Origins of the Gradient

2002 • 1,568 citations

The economic burden of malaria

2001 • 1,506 citations

The Changing Relation between Mortality and level of Economic Development

1975 • 1,504 citations

Worldwide Variation in Human Growth

1991 • 1,496 citations

The Determinants of Mortality

2006 • 1,484 citations

Killing Me Softly: The Fetal Origins Hypothesis

2011 • 1,477 citations

The Effect of Health on Economic Growth: A Production Function Approach

2003 • 1,350 citations

Wealthier is Healthier

1996 • 1,341 citations

Plagues and Peoples

1976 • 1,225 citations

Health, Inequality, and Economic Development

2003 • 1,224 citations

The Modern Rise of Population

1977 • 1,163 citations

Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth

2007 • 1,143 citations

Is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Over? Long‐Term Effects of In Utero Influenza Exposure in the Post‐1940 U.S. Population

2006 • 1,127 citations

From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes

2007 • 1,119 citations

The role of public health improvements in health advances: The twentieth-century United States

2005 • 1,111 citations

Global Burden of Disease

2008 • 1,105 citations

Disease and Development: Evidence from Hookworm Eradication in the American South

2007 • 954 citations

Routes to Low Mortality in Poor Countries

1986 • 950 citations

The Value of Life and the Rise in Health Spending

2007 • 905 citations

Returns to Birthweight

2004 • 833 citations

The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality

2005 • 823 citations

The Value of Health and Longevity

2006 • 810 citations

Accounting for cross-country income differences

2005 • 781 citations

Accounting for the Effect Of Health on Economic Growth

2007 • 771 citations

Saving and Growth with Habit Formation

2000 • 737 citations

Human Development Report 2013. The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World

2013 • 707 citations

A GLOBAL INDEX REPRESENTING THE STABILITY OF MALARIA TRANSMISSION

2004 • 632 citations

Health, Inequality, and Economic Development

2003 • 577 citations

Food and nutrition in India: facts and interpretations.

2009 • 571 citations

Mortality decline, human capital investment, and economic growth

2000 • 556 citations

The Costs of Low Birth Weight*

2005 • 478 citations

Height, health, and development

2007 • 472 citations

Economic growth, population theory, and physiology : The bearing of long-term processes on the

1994 • 458 citations

Malaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure

2010 • 449 citations

Death and development

2008 • 438 citations

Mortality Reductions, Educational Attainment, and Fertility Choice

2005 • 422 citations

A Concise History of World Population

1994 • 409 citations

Early-Life Health and Adult Circumstance in Developing Countries

2013 • 391 citations

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2002 • 359 citations

Longevity and Life‐cycle Savings*

2003 • 354 citations

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1999 • 351 citations

Some Macroeconomics for the 21st Century

2000 • 348 citations

Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines^*

2009 • 331 citations

RETRACTED: Parasite prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability

2010 • 327 citations

The Gift of the Dying: The Tragedy of AIDS and the Welfare of Future African Generations

2005 • 327 citations

The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development

2015 • 302 citations

Wage Gains Associated with Height as a Form of Health Human Capital

2002 • 300 citations

Mortality, Education, Income, and Inequality Among American Cohorts

2001 • 293 citations

Estimates of Regional and Global Life Expectancy, 1800–2001

2005 • 274 citations

Perspectives on the Economics of Aging

2004 • 269 citations

The Changing body: health, nutrition, and human development in the Western world since 1700

2011 • 268 citations

Malaria Eradication and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Paraguay and Sri Lanka

2010 • 261 citations

Early-life Malaria Exposure and Adult Outcomes: Evidence from Malaria Eradication in India

2010 • 260 citations

Causes and consequences of early-life health

2010 • 254 citations

Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology: The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy

1994 • 242 citations

The Effect of Fertility Reduction on Economic Growth

2013 • 235 citations

Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa

2003 • 221 citations

Social Rights and Economics: Claims to Health Care and Education in Developing Countries

2004 • 213 citations

The Gender Gap, Fertility and Growth

1993 • 213 citations

Health, nutrition and prosperity: a microeconomic perspective.

2002 • 188 citations

When Does Improving Health Raise GDP?

2008 • 188 citations

Health, Nutrition, and Economic Growth

2004 • 180 citations

On the Determinants of Mortality Reductions in the Developing World

2007 • 165 citations

IQ on the Rise

2003 • 160 citations

UNCERTAIN LIFETIME AND INTERTEMPORAL CHOICE: RISK AVERSION AS A RATIONALE FOR TIME DISCOUNTING*

2006 • 160 citations

Longevity and Lifetime Labor Supply: Evidence and Implications

2009 • 154 citations

HIV and sexual behavior change: Why not Africa?

2012 • 152 citations

Limited Life Expectancy, Human Capital and Health Investments

2013 • 143 citations

Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States

1997 • 142 citations

Height of Nations: A Socioeconomic Analysis of Cohort Differences and Patterns among Women in 54 Low- to Middle-Income Countries

2011 • 142 citations

Does longevity cause growth? A theoretical critique

2006 • 142 citations

Height, skills, and labor market outcomes in Mexico

2013 • 138 citations

The urban mortality transition in the united states, 1800-1940

2001 • 130 citations

A Concise History of World Population

1998 • 125 citations

Secular trend in age at menarche for South Korean women born between 1920 and 1986: the Ansan Study

2003 • 112 citations

Life Expectancy, Schooling, and Lifetime Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence Revisited

2013 • 107 citations

Mortality change, the uncertainty effect, and retirement

2010 • 92 citations

How Much of Cross-Country Income Variation is Explained by Health?

2003 • 88 citations

Productive Benefits of Health: Evidence from Low-Income Countries

2005 • 84 citations

The Great Escape: A Review of Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100

2006 • 72 citations

Mortality Inequality

2009 • 70 citations

American Longevity: Past, Present, and Future

1996 • 56 citations

In support of the nutrition theory.

1998 • 53 citations

The longevity of famous people from Hammurabi to Einstein

2015 • 51 citations

The Role of Government and Science-Technology Policy in Taiwan

2001 • 50 citations

Numeracy and the Impact of High Food Prices in Industrializing Britain, 1780–1850

2013 • 49 citations

Male Circumcision and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis

2007 • 49 citations

American Longevity: Past, Present, and Future

1996 • 47 citations

The role of nutrition in the development of intelligence.

1998 • 42 citations

Changes in the Age Distribution of Mortality over the Twentieth Century

2004 • 38 citations

Nutrition and the worldwide rise in IQ scores.

1998 • 34 citations

Health Human Capital and Economic Development

2010 • 28 citations

Wealth from Health: Linking Social Investments to Earnings in Latin America

2000 • 25 citations

Parasites, pathogens, and progress: diseases and economic development

2012 • 23 citations

A comparison between pre- and post-colonial health in the northern parts of South Africa, a preliminary study

2003 • 20 citations

Malaria: Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences

2007 • 20 citations

Malaria: Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences

2008 • 19 citations

Disease and Development: A Reply to Bloom, Canning, and Fink

2014 • 17 citations

Beyond expected utility in the economics of health and longevity

2013 • 11 citations

Disease and Development: A Reply to Bloom, Canning, and Fink

2014 • 10 citations

Productive Benefits of Health: Evidence from Low-Income Countries

2005 • 9 citations

IQ and National Productivity

2011 • 5 citations