Analysis of the urbanization-socioeconomic development relationship with impulse-response functions: the case of Turkey

Socio-economic development, which provides information about the welfare level of countries, and improvements in public health and urbanization are in interaction. In this study, the rate of urbanization, life expectancy at birth, gross domestic product and the number of people per doctor in Turkey between 1980 and 2019 were examined with VAR analysis and Granger causality. According to the findings, life expectancy at birth, gross domestic product, and the number of people per doctor come together to have a significant effect on the urbanization rate. In addition, a significant relationship was found between urbanization and gross domestic product. However, no significant relationship was found between other variables and the rate of urbanization. In addition, the effect of a shock in one variable on other variables is shown by means of impulse-response graphs