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Child health as human capital
Author(s) -
Currie Janet
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
health economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.55
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1099-1050
pISSN - 1057-9230
DOI - 10.1002/hec.3995
Subject(s) - human capital , mental health , work (physics) , mechanism (biology) , public economics , business , economic growth , political science , economics , psychology , psychiatry , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology
Child health is increasingly understood to be a critical form of human capital, but only recently have we begun to understand how valuable it is and how its development could be better supported. This article provides an overview of recent work that demonstrates the key role of public insurance in supporting longer term human capital development and points to improvements in child mental health as an especially important mechanism.