Artikel

Private health expenditures and environmental quality

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
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)

Klassifikation
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
Thema
environmental expenditure
health care expenditure
overlapping generation
age-based conflict

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Safi, Fatma
Ben Hassen, Lobna
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
(wo)
Kiel
(wann)
2017

DOI
doi:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2017-3
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Safi, Fatma
  • Ben Hassen, Lobna
  • Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Entstanden

  • 2017

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