TY  - JOUR
AU  - Alsan,Marcella
AU  - Bloom,David E.
AU  - Canning,David
TI  - The Effect of Population Health on Foreign Direct Investment
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 10596
PY  - 2004
Y2  - June 2004
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10596
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10596.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Marcella M. Alsan
Department of Economics
Harvard University
1875 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
E-Mail: malsan@fas.harvard.edu

David E. Bloom
Harvard School of Public Health
Department of Global Health and Population
665 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617/432-0866
Fax: 617/432-6733
E-Mail: dbloom@hsph.harvard.edu

David Canning
Harvard School of Public Health
Department of Global Health and Population
665 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617/432-6336
Fax: 617/566-0365
E-Mail: dcanning@hsph.harvard.edu
AB  - 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.
ER  -