Environmental health and education: Towards sustainable growth

Natacha Raffin

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: This article aims at investigating the interplay between environmental quality, health and development. We consider an OLG model, where human capital dynamics depend on the current environment, through its impact on children's school attendance. In turn, environmental quality dynamics depend on human capital, through maintenance and pollution. This two-way causality generates a co-evolution of human capital and environmental quality and may induce the emergence of an environmental poverty trap characterized by a low level of human capital and deteriorated environmental quality. Our results are consistent with empirical observation about the existence of Environmental Kuznets Curve. Finally, the model allows for the assessment of an environmental policy that would allow to escape the trap

Keywords: Education; environmental quality; growth; health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D90 H51 I20 Q01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2009-04
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Working Paper: Environmental health and education: Towards sustainable growth (2009)
Working Paper: Environmental health and education: Towards sustainable growth (2009)
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