Health and schooling investments in Africa.
This paper first outlines an organizing framework for considering how health and schooling affect labor productivity and growth, and how household and community factors can in turn affect the demand for these human capital investments. Both cross-country growth models and various aspects of microeconomic studies of individual productivity as related to education and health are discussed. The conclusion offers some tentative leads for policy in this area based on existing research, and an agenda for future research.
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Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. pschultz@pantheon.yale.edu
D000293:Adolescent; D000349:Africa; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D012574:Schools; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors