Journal article
The role of education in health system performance
Abstract
I investigate the role of education on health, using country-level data and the production frontier framework suggested by the World Health Organization (WHO) to assess performances of health care systems. I find that the impact of human capital on health is much smaller than suggested by the WHO frontier model, and the relationship exhibits diminishing return in the observed range of education. Taking into account the heterogeneity in this …
Authors
Grignon M
Journal
Economics of Education Review, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 299–307
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
June 2008
DOI
10.1016/j.econedurev.2006.11.001
ISSN
0272-7757