Income variation, endogenous population growth and health subsidy
This paper presents a fertility choice model in which the mortality rate is also endogenously determined and health expenditure provides utility to individuals as well as affects the mortality rate. The analysis shows that the model predictions agree with the empirical evidence on the relationship b...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Estudios de economia 2001, Vol.28 (2), p.165-181 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This paper presents a fertility choice model in which the mortality rate is also
endogenously determined and health expenditure provides utility to individuals
as well as affects the mortality rate. The analysis shows that the model predictions
agree with the empirical evidence on the relationship between demography
trends and economic development. Public expenditure represents a large
amount of total expenditure on health care in many countries. Thus, we also
study the effects that introducing a subsidy to health expenditure has on economic
and demographic variables. These effects are found to depend on the
way the subsidy is financed. Este trabajo presenta un modelo de elección de la fertilidad en el que la tasa de
mortalidad se determina endógenamente y el gasto sanitario proporciona
utilidad al individuo además de influir sobre la tasa de mortalidad. El análisis
muestra que las predicciones del modelo concuerdan con la evidencia empírica
sobre la relación entre tendencias demográficas y desarrollo económico. El
gasto público representa una gran proporción del gasto sanitario total en muchos
países. Por ello, también se estudian los efectos de un subsidio al gasto sanitario
sobre las variables económicas y demográficas, que dependerán de la fuente
de financiación del subsidio. |
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ISSN: | 0304-2758 |