On the Relation Between Health and Income: A Cross-Country Analysis

Kobylinski, Katarina; Tyrowicz, Joanna

doi:10.1515/ceej-2018-0020

Abstract

An examination of the correlation between health and wealth cannot determine the direction of causality between the two. Countries’ geographic characteristics have an important effect on health, and they are plausibly uncorrelated with other determinants of wealth. This paper uses two climate variables – population-weighted temperature and precipitation – to obtain instrumental variables estimates of the effect of health on wealth.

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