Bibliographic citations
Bustamante, K., (2022). Impacto del gasto público en salud en el crecimiento económico, una visión de América Latina [Trabajo de investigación, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)]. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/660458
Bustamante, K., Impacto del gasto público en salud en el crecimiento económico, una visión de América Latina [Trabajo de investigación]. PE: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC); 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/660458
@misc{renati/399902,
title = "Impacto del gasto público en salud en el crecimiento económico, una visión de América Latina",
author = "Bustamante Bances, Karina Giamella",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)",
year = "2022"
}
This paper investigates the impact of public health spending on economic growth in Latin America during the period 2000-2019. The extended form of the Solow growth model is used to include health spending as a proxy for one of the variables that influence the formation of human capital, and panel data are used for 18 Latin American countries for that period. In this way, the relationship between both variables is studied from a new perspective, since previous studies had not previously considered the Latin American region as a whole. The estimation method was a panel econometric model with fixed effects, from which it was obtained that the relationship between both variables is positive and significant, that is, a 1 million dollar increase in public spending on health would in turn produce an increase of 1.26 percent in economic growth, keeping the other variables constant. Within the estimation, variables such as total capital input, years of schooling and the coefficient of external openness were also considered, which turned out to have a positive and significant relationship with the dependent for the present study. Finally, a comparative study between Chile and Peru is added with the objective of comparing the development that both countries have had in the twenty years of study and estimating how much approximate values should be in health so that it reaches the economic growth per capita that Chile has.
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