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Endogenous Fertility in a Growth Model with Public and Private Health Expenditures

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  • Dimitrios Varvarigos
  • Intan Zanariah Zakaria

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We build an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility choices as well as public and private expenditures on health. We find that the complementary effect of public health services on private health expenditures can provide an additional explanation behind a salient feature of demographic transition; that is, the fertility decline along the process of economic growth.

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  • Dimitrios Varvarigos & Intan Zanariah Zakaria, 2010. "Endogenous Fertility in a Growth Model with Public and Private Health Expenditures," Discussion Papers in Economics 11/07, Division of Economics, School of Business, University of Leicester.
    • Handle: RePEc:lec:leecon:11/07
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    1. Elise S. Brezis & Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira, 2012. "Endogenous Fertility and Intergenerational Transfers: The Significance of the Sibship Size Effect," Working Papers 2012-14, Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics.
    2. Stauvermann, Peter J. & Ky, Sereyvath & Nam, Gi-Yu, 2013. "The Costs of Increasing the Fertility Rate in an Endogenous Growth Model," MPRA Paper 46381, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    Fertility; Economic growth; Health expenditures;
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    JEL classification:

    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • O41 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models

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