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> Wealth from Health
> Linking Social Investments to Earnings in Latin America
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> William D. Savedoff and T. Paul Schultz, Editors
> Inter American Development Bank - IDB, 2000
> ISBN: 1886938849
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> More information at:
> <http://www.iadb.org/exr/pub/pages/book.asp?id=114#conten>
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> "........There is common sense in the notions that healthier people are
> more productive and that wealthier people can obtain things that make them
> healthier. Investigating the strength of these associations, Wealth from
> Health asks whether investments in health also affect
> productivity and how public policy can influence this relationship.
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> These questions are probed through a series of Latin American case
> studies, using household survey data on individuals to analyze the
> relationships between efforts to improve health on the one hand, and the
> potential impact of health status on individual hourly earnings on the
> other. By analyzing these relationships together-health determinants and
> the impact of health on earnings-it becomes possible to assess the
> effectiveness of particular strategies for improving health status and to
> see the critical importance of health as a component of human
> capital..........."
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> Content:
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> Chapter 1.
> Earnings and the Elusive Dividends of Health
> William D. Savedoff and T. Paul Schultz
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> Chapter 2.
> Health, Nutrition, and Wages: Age at Menarche and Earnings in
> Mexico
> Felicia Marie Knaul
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> Chapter 3.
> Elderly Health and Salaries in the Mexican Labor Market
> Susan W. Parker
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> Chapter 4.
> Adult Morbidity, Height, and Earnings in Colombia
> Rocio Ribero and Jairo Nuñez
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> Chapter 5.
> The Returns to Health for Peruvian Urban Adults by Gender, Age,
> and across the
> Wage Distribution
> Edmundo Murrugarra and Martín Valdivia
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> Chapter 6.
> Health and Productivity in Peru: Estimates by Gender and Region
> Rafael Cortez
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> Chapter 7.
> Productivity and Health Status in Nicaragua
> Jaime Espinosa Ferrando and Carlos Hernández Alvarez, with
> William D. Savedoff
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