We construct a multi-country Schumpeterian growth model in which technological change can occur either through research and development or through implementation. R&D requires a threshold level of human capital that depends ...

We show that when the distribution of economic growth is classified by life expectancy, significant and changing structural features emerge. The period 1960-1980 shows a non-linear dependence of average growth on life ...

We show that the cross-country distribution of life expectancy for the period 1960-1997 is an evolving twin-peaked distribution with a diminishing, dynamically invariant lower peak. This may imply the presence of a ...

We report on a study of the effects of life expectancy and mortality by age and gender groups on economic growth in Mexico, 1950-1995, using a Granger causality test in economic growth equations. Results indicate stronger ...

I model life expectancy in terms of physical and human capital and technology, the fundamental economic variables described by economic growth theories. For concreteness, the Solow model and a convergence club growth model ...

We give evidence that accumulation of educational capital by the poor is only possible if a minimum level of health and well-being has been attained. Credit restrictions may thus imply the existence of low-health, low-income ...