Wealthier is healthier (English)

With cross-country, time series data on health (infant and child mortality, and life expectancy) and per capita income, the authors estimate the effect of income on health. They use instrumental variables estimation to identify the effect of income on health that is structural and causal, isolated from reverse causation (healthier workers are more productive and hence wealthier) or incidental association (some other factor may cause both better health...
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Pritchett,Lant Hayward; Summers, Lawrence H..

Wealthier is healthier (English). Policy, Research working papers ; no. WPS 1150. World development report Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/684651468741004317

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