Productive benefits of health
Subtitle: evidence from low-income countries
By: by T. Paul Schultz.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1482; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1482
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Human capital -- Ghana.; Human capital -- Côte d'Ivoire.; Human capital -- Brazil.; Health status indicators -- Ghana.; Health status indicators -- Côte d'Ivoire.; Health status indicators -- Brazil.; Wages -- Ghana.; Wages -- Côte d'Ivoire.; Wages -- Brazil.
Description: "Various household survey indicators of adult nutrition and health status are analyzed as determinants of individual wages. However, survey indicators of health status may be heterogeneous, or a combination of health human capital formed by investment behavior and variation due to genotype, random shocks, and measurement error, which are uncontrolled by behavior. Although there are no definitive methods for distinguishing between human capital and genetic variation in health outcomes, alternative mappings of health status, such as height, on community health services, parent socioeconomic characteristics, and ethnic categories may be suggestive. Instrumental variable estimates of health human capital and residual sources of variation in measured health status are included in wage functions to assess empirically whether the productivity of both components of health are equal. Evidence from Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire and Brazil suggest that the health human capital effect on wages is substantially larger than that associated with residual health variation"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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