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JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS
Volume 26, Issue 1, Pages 67-85Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-012-0412-1
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Fertility; Economic growth; Health expenditures
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We build an overlapping-generations model that incorporates endogenous fertility choices, in addition to public and private expenditures on health. Following the seminal analysis of Bhattacharya and Qiao (J Econ Dyn Control 31:2519-2535, 2007) we assume that the effect of public health investment is complementary to private health expenditures. We find that this effect reinforces the positive impact of the capital stock on aggregate saving. Furthermore, we show that this complementarity can provide an additional explanation behind a salient feature of demographic transition; that is, the fertility decline along the process of economic growth.
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