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Population Aging, Health Investment and Economic Growth: Based on a Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis

With the economic development of various countries and the deepening of population aging, health plays an increasingly important role in the macro-economy. How to meet the growing health needs as well as promote the economy has captured the attention of the world. Therefore, whether health investmen...

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Autores principales: Yang, Yingzhu, Zheng, Rong, Zhao, Lexiang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7918705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33673245
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041801
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Zhao, Lexiang
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description With the economic development of various countries and the deepening of population aging, health plays an increasingly important role in the macro-economy. How to meet the growing health needs as well as promote the economy has captured the attention of the world. Therefore, whether health investment can promote economic growth is an important theoretical and practical issue. An extended Mankiw–Romer–Weil model (MRW) with human health capital and population aging is employed to examine the impact on economic growth from population aging and health investment. On the basis of the theoretical model, this paper uses the LSDV and TSLS methods to carry out an empirical study based on cross-country panel data during the period 2000–2016. The empirical results show that health investment plays a significant role in promoting economic growth, and there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between population aging and economic growth. The impacts on economic growth from health investment and population aging can weaken each other. In addition, this paper also finds that health investment structure and the proportion of government health investment to total government spending can affect economic growth.
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spelling pubmed-79187052021-03-02 Population Aging, Health Investment and Economic Growth: Based on a Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis Yang, Yingzhu Zheng, Rong Zhao, Lexiang Int J Environ Res Public Health Article With the economic development of various countries and the deepening of population aging, health plays an increasingly important role in the macro-economy. How to meet the growing health needs as well as promote the economy has captured the attention of the world. Therefore, whether health investment can promote economic growth is an important theoretical and practical issue. An extended Mankiw–Romer–Weil model (MRW) with human health capital and population aging is employed to examine the impact on economic growth from population aging and health investment. On the basis of the theoretical model, this paper uses the LSDV and TSLS methods to carry out an empirical study based on cross-country panel data during the period 2000–2016. The empirical results show that health investment plays a significant role in promoting economic growth, and there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between population aging and economic growth. The impacts on economic growth from health investment and population aging can weaken each other. In addition, this paper also finds that health investment structure and the proportion of government health investment to total government spending can affect economic growth. MDPI 2021-02-12 2021-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7918705/ /pubmed/33673245 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041801 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Population Aging, Health Investment and Economic Growth: Based on a Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis
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title_full Population Aging, Health Investment and Economic Growth: Based on a Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis
title_fullStr Population Aging, Health Investment and Economic Growth: Based on a Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis
title_full_unstemmed Population Aging, Health Investment and Economic Growth: Based on a Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis
title_short Population Aging, Health Investment and Economic Growth: Based on a Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis
title_sort population aging, health investment and economic growth: based on a cross-country panel data analysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7918705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33673245
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041801
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