Private health expenditures and environmental quality

Artikel

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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal ; ISSN: 1864-6042 ; Volume: 11 ; Year: 2017 ; Issue: 2017-3 ; Pages: 1-24 ; Kiel: Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡ ; Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts ; Renewable Resources and Conservation: General
• Subject: environmental expenditure ; health care expenditure ; overlapping generation ; age-based conflict

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Safi, Fatma ; Ben Hassen, Lobna
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
• (where): Kiel
• (when): 2017

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2017-3
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/150537
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET