Health and Schooling Investments in Africa

This paper first outlines an organizing framework for considering how health and schooling affect labor productivity and growth, and how household and community factors can in turn affect the demand for these human capital investments. Both cross-country growth models and various aspects of microeco...

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Published in:The Journal of economic perspectives 1999, Vol.13 (3), p.67-88
Main Author: Schultz, T. Paul
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult education
Adults
Africa
Child mortality
Children & youth
Education
Educational attainment
Enrollments
Expenditures
Female
Government spending
Growth models
Health
Health Education
Health Status
Health technology assessment
Higher education
Households
Human capital
Humans
Investment
Investments
Labor productivity
Life expectancy
Low income groups
Male
Men
Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Parents & parenting
Per capita
Productivity
Public expenditure
Public health
Regression analysis
School enrollment
Schooling
Schools
Socioeconomic Factors
Standard of living
Symposium: Slow Growth in Africa
Tropical diseases
Urbanization
Variables
Wages
Wages & salaries
Womens health
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Summary:This paper first outlines an organizing framework for considering how health and schooling affect labor productivity and growth, and how household and community factors can in turn affect the demand for these human capital investments. Both cross-country growth models and various aspects of microeconomic studies of individual productivity as related to education and health are discussed. The conclusion offers some tentative leads for policy in this area based on existing research, and an agenda for future research.
ISSN:0895-3309
1944-7965
DOI:10.1257/jep.13.3.67