Artículo de revista
Income variation, endogenous population growth and health subsidy
Fecha
2001-12Registro en:
Estudios de economía. Vol.28 No. 2 Diciembre 2001 Pags. 165-181
Autor
Gómez, Manuel A.
Currais, Luis C.
Institución
Resumen
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.