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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Health and Growth: Causality through Education
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| Autores: |
Huang, Rui
Fulginiti, Lilyan E.
Peterson, E. Wesley F.
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| Data: |
2009-06-30
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| Ano: |
2009
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| Palavras-chave: |
HIV/AIDS
Africa
Life expectancy
Growth
Overlapping generations
Health Economics and Policy
International Development
I18
I20
O15
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| Resumo: |
Replaced with revised version of paper 08/24/09.
A three-period overlapping-generations model is developed to investigate the impact on human capital investment decisions and income growth of lowered life expectancy as a result of diseases such as HIV/AIDS. We show that an increased probability of premature death leads to less investment in human capital, and consequently slower growth. We also empirically investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa and the role of health in the level of educational investments and growth for a broader set of countries. The empirical results show that HIV/AIDS has resulted in a substantial decline in life expectancy in African countries and falling life expectancies are indeed associated with lower educational attainment and slower economic growth world wide.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/51735
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| Relação: |
International Association of Agricultural Economists>2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China
Contributed Paper
482
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| Formato: |
46
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