Though Becker, Murphy, and Tamura (

Though Becker, Murphy, and Tamura (1990) did not
pay much attention to health, their framework, when coupled with the complementarities
between health, human capital, and fertility discussed before, opened up the possibility of
understanding the role of “exogenous” changes in health, driven by advances in medical
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and biological sciences, as driving forces behind the process of demographic transition