Alsan, Marcella
[VerfasserIn]
;
Bloom, David E.
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Canning, David
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]National Bureau of Economic Research
The Effect of Population Health on Foreign Direct Investment
Erschienen:
Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2004
Erschienen in:NBER working paper series ; no. w10596
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Englisch
DOI:
10.3386/w10596
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We conduct a panel data analysis of 74 countries over 1980 2000 to investigate whether population health affects foreign direct investment inflows. Our main finding is that health has a positive and significant effect on such inflows for low- and middle-income countries. This finding is consistent with the view that health is an integral component of human capital in developing countries