The contribution of female health to economic development
在一个统一增长模型中分析投资女性健康对贫困国家的经济后果，发现改善女性健康能加速人口转型和经济起飞，而男性健康改善则因提高生育率而延迟转型，但家庭偏好男性健康改善，凸显短期利益与长期发展目标的动态权衡。
Abstract We analyse the economic consequences for poor countries of investing in female health within a unified growth model featuring health-related gender differences in productivity. Better female health accelerates the demographic transition and thereby the take-off towards sustained economic growth. By contrast, male health improvements delay the transition and take-off because they tend to raise fertility. However, households tend to prefer male health improvements over female health improvements because they imply a larger static utility gain. This highlights the existence of a dynamic trade-off between the short-run interests of households and long-run development goals.