Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate long-run equilibrium relationship and the direction of causality between health care development and higher education in Northern Cyprus, which has shown a tremendous development in higher education sector. Results of the present study reveal that higher education is a long term determinant of health care development in this small island. Health care in Northern Cyprus converges to its long term equilibrium level by 35.2 % speed of adjustment every year through the channel of higher education growth in Northern Cyprus. The other finding of this study is that there exists unidirectional causality in the short term period that runs from higher education growth to health care growth in Northern Cyprus.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Balaguer, J., & Cantavella-Jordá, M. (2002). Tourism as a long-run economic growth factor: the Spanish case. Applied Economics, 34(7), 877–884.
Beneito, P., Ferri, J., Molto, M. L., & Uriel, E. (2001). Determinants of the demand for education in Spain. Applied Economics, 33(12), 1541–1551.
Connell, J. (2006). Medical tourism: sea, sun, sand and .... surgery. Tourism Management, 27, 1093–1100.
Dickey, D. A., & Fuller, W. A. (1981). Likelihood ratio statistics for autoregressive time series with a unit root. Econometrica, 49, 1057–1072.
Dristakis, N. (2004). Tourism as a long-run economic growth factor: an empirical investigation for Greece using causality analysis. Tourism Economics, 10(3), 305–316.
García-Altes, A. (2005). The development of health tourism services. Annals of Tourism Research, 32, 262–266.
Gujarati, D. N. (2003). Basic econometrics (4th Edn). McGraw‐Hill Inc., International Edition, New York, NY, 10020.
Gunduz, L., & Hatemi-J, A. (2005). Is the tourism-led growth hypothesis valid for Turkey? Applied Economics Letters, 12, 499–504.
Hunter-Jones, P. (2005). Cancer and tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 32, 70–92.
Jayawardena, C., & Ramajeesingh, D. (2003). Performance of tourism analysis: a Caribbean perspective. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 15(3), 176–179.
Katircioglu, S. (2009a). Revisiting the tourism-led growth hypothesis for Turkey using the bounds test and Johansen approach for cointegration. Tourism Management, 30(1), 17–20.
Katircioglu, S. (2009b). Trade, tourism and growth: the case of Cyprus. Applied Economics, 41(21), 2741–2750.
Katircioglu, S. (2009c). Testing the tourism-led growth hypothesis: the case of Malta. Acta Oeconomica, 59(3), 331–343.
Katircioglu, S. T. (2010). International tourism, higher education, and economic growth: the case of North Cyprus. The World Economy, 33, 1955–1972.
Katircioglu, S., Fethi, S., & Caner, H. (2013). Testing the higher education-led growth hypothesis in a small island: an empirical investigation from a new version of the Solow growth model. Quality & Quantity. doi:10.1007/s11135-012-9798-9.
Lee, C. G. (2010). Health care and tourism: evidence from Singapore. Tourism Management, 31, 486–488.
McKinnon, R. (1964). Foreign exchange constraint in economic development and efficient aid allocation. Economic Journal, 74, 388–409.
Mehmet, O., & Tahiroglu, M. (2002). Growth and equity in microstates: does size matter in development? International Journal of Social Economics, 29(½), 152–162.
Narayan, P. K. (2005). The saving and investment nexus for China: evidence from cointegration tests. Applied Economics, 37(17), 1979–1990.
Oh, C.-O. (2005). The contribution of tourism development to economic growth in the Korean economy. Tourism Management, 26, 39–44.
Omotor, D. G. (2008). The role of exports in the economic growth of Nigeria: the bounds test analysis. International Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2(4), 222–235.
Ongan, S., & Demiroz, D. M. (2005). The contribution of tourism to the long-run Turkish economic growth. Ekonomický časopis/Journal of Economics, 53(9), 880–894.
Page, S. J. (2009). Current issue in tourism: the evolution of travel tourism research: a new research agenda for tourism? Tourism Management, 30, 149–157.
Pesaran, M. H., & Shin, Y. (1999). An autoregressive distributed lag modeling approach to cointegration analysis. Chapter 11. In S. Strom (Ed.), Econometrics and economic theory in the 20th century: The ragnar frisch centennial symposium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pesaran, M. H., Shin, Y., & Smith, R. J. (2001). Bounds testing approaches to the analysis of level relationships. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 16, 289–326.
Phillips, P. C. B., & Perron, P. (1988). Testing for a unit root in time series regression. Biometrica, 75, 335–346.
Pindyck, R. S., & Rubinfeld, D. L. (1991). Models and economic forecasts. McGraw-Hill Inc., International Edition, New York, NY, 10020
Prasad, N. (2008). Growth and social development in the Pacific Island countries. International Journal of Social Economics, 35(12), 930–950.
State Planning Organization (SPO) (2012). Economic and social ındicators. North Cyprus: Follow Up And Coordination Department, Prime Ministry, Nicosia.
Stevens, P., & Weale, M. (2003). Education and economic growth. National Institute of Economic and Social Research, 2, Dean Trench Street, London, SW1P, 3HE, August 2003.
UNEP (2002). Tourism. United Nations Environment Programme. Paris.
Wilkinson, P. F. (1987). Tourism in small island nations: a fragile dependency. Leisure Studies, 6(2), 127–146.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Katircioğlu, S. Higher Education and Health Care Development: The Case of Northern Cyprus. Applied Research Quality Life 9, 605–616 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-013-9259-1
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-013-9259-1