Published Online: Jun 29, 2016
Page range: 80 - 87
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sbe-2016-0007
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© 2016 Mahyar Hami, published by De Gruyter Open
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Regarding the link between economic growth and it’s public outcomes, this paper studies the effect of economic growth on life expectancy in Iran during 1966-2013. To achieve the research objectives, annually data collected from World Bank Database and I used the life expectancy at birth and annually GDP growth rate to measure the research variables. Then I applied Vector Error Correction Model to estimate the proposed model. The results on this study show that economic growth has a positively significant effect on life expectancy in Iran during the observation period.