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Health, income, and the Preston Curve: a long view

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dc.affiliation.institutoUC3M. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Socialeses
dc.contributor.authorPrados de la Escosura, Leandro
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Socialeses
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-29T18:51:38Z
dc.date.available2022-03-29T18:51:38Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-29
dc.description.abstractWell-being is increasingly viewed as a multidimensional phenomenon, of which income is only one facet. In this paper I focus on another one, health, and look at its synthetic measure, life expectancy at birth, and its relationship with per capita income. International trends of life expectancy and per capita GDP differed during the past 150 years. Life expectancy gains depended on economic growth but also on the advancement in medical knowledge. The pace and breadth of the health transitions drove life expectancy aggregate tendencies and distribution. The new results confirm the relationship between life expectancy and per capita income and its outward shift over time as put forward by Samuel Preston. However, the association between nonlinearlytransformed life expectancy and the log of per capita income does not flattenout over time, but becomes convex suggesting more than proportional increases in life expectancy at higher per capita income levels.en
dc.identifier.issn2341-2542es
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/34493
dc.identifier.uxxiDT/0000001993es
dc.language.isoenges
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Papers in Economic Historyen
dc.relation.ispartofseries22-02
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomíaes
dc.subject.jelF60
dc.subject.jelI15
dc.subject.jelN30
dc.subject.jelO50
dc.subject.otherWell-Beingen
dc.subject.otherLife Expectancyen
dc.subject.otherPer Capita Incomeen
dc.subject.otherInequalityen
dc.subject.otherHealth Transitionen
dc.subject.otherPreston Curveen
dc.titleHealth, income, and the Preston Curve: a long viewen
dc.typeworking paper*
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