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

Dimitrios Varvarigos () and Intan Zanariah Zakaria ()

No 11/07, Discussion Papers in Economics from Division of Economics, School of Business, University of Leicester

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Fertility; Economic growth; Health expenditures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-11
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