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Klaus Prettner
Researcher at Vienna University of Economics and Business
Publications - 177
Citations - 5174
Klaus Prettner is an academic researcher from Vienna University of Economics and Business. The author has contributed to research in topics: Human capital & Population. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 169 publications receiving 4188 citations. Previous affiliations of Klaus Prettner include Vienna University of Technology & Austrian Academy of Sciences.
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The Global Economic Burden of Noncommunicable Diseases
David E. Bloom,Elizabeth T. Cafiero,Eva Jané-Llopis,Shafika Abrahams-Gessel,Lakshmi Reddy Bloom,Sana F. Fathima,Andrea B. Feigl,Tom Gaziano,Ali Hamandi,Mona Mowafi,Danny O’Farrell,Emre Özaltin,Ankur Pandya,Klaus Prettner,Larry Rosenberg,Benjamin Seligman,Adam Z. Stein,Cara Weinstein,Jonathan Weiss +18 more
TL;DR: New estimates of the global economic burden of non-communicable diseases in 2010 are developed, and the size of the burden through 2030 is projected, to capture the thinking of the business community about the impact of NCDs on their enterprises.
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From Burden to "Best Buys": Reducing the Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Disease in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
TL;DR: Findings from two new studies aimed at equipping decision-makers in government, civil society and the private sector with key economic insights needed to help reduce the growing burden of NCDs are brought together.
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Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence
TL;DR: This paper showed that an increase in the adult survival rate of 10 percentage points is associated with a 91 percent increase in labor productivity and added a strong argument for investments in population health over and above the direct welfare benefits of good health.
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Population ageing and endogenous economic growth
TL;DR: In this paper, the consequences of population ageing for long-run economic growth perspectives were investigated, and it was shown that increases in longevity have positive effects on steady state per capita output growth in endogenous as well as in semi-endogenous growth models.
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Population aging and endogenous economic growth
TL;DR: This framework incorporates endogenous growth models and semi-endogenous growth models as special cases and shows that increases in longevity have a positive impact on per capita output growth and the positive longevity effect dominates the negative fertility effect in case of the endogenous growth framework.