Health and Infrastructure in Models of Endogenous Growth

Pierre-Richard Agénor

Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research Discussion Paper Series from Economics, The University of Manchester

Abstract: This paper studies the optimal allocation of government spending between infrastructure and health (which affects labor productivity as well as household utility) in an endogenous growth framework. A key feature of the model is that infrastructure affects not only the production of goods but also the supply of health services. The first part considers the case where health enters as a flow in production and utility, whereas the second focuses on a "stock" approach. Growth- and utility-maximizing rules for output taxation and the allocation of public spending are derived. It is shown, in particular, that the welfare-maximizing share of spending on health exceeds the growth-maximizing share.

Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2005
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-hea and nep-upt
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
https://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/schools/soss/cgb ... papers/dpcgbcr62.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Health and infrastructure in a model of endogenous growth (2008)
Working Paper: Health and Infrastructure in Models of Endogenous Growth (2005)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:man:cgbcrp:62

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research Discussion Paper Series from Economics, The University of Manchester Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Patrick Macnamara ().