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Private health expenditures and environmental quality

Fatma Safi and Lobna Ben Hassen

Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), 2017, vol. 11, No 2017-3, 24 pages

Abstract: This paper presents a simple two-period overlapping generations model that contains environmental and health issues. It investigates an intergenerational conflict between old and young generations as regards two defensive expenditures offsetting the influence of a worsening environment represented here by health care and environmental investment. Workers support environmental maintenance while retirees prefer investing in health care. The authors have shown that an increasing support for private health expenditure leads to a higher level of capital accumulation and leads also to a higher level of environmental quality if the maintenance efforts are higher than consumption externalities.

Keywords: environmental expenditure; health care expenditure; overlapping generation; age-based conflict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 J11 Q20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2017-3

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