Health and Economic Growth

Handbook of Economic Growth

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 623-682

  Weil, David N ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease; Economic Growth; Health; Mortality; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888998548     PISSN: 15740684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53540-5.00003-3     Document Type: Chapter

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