Health cycles and health transitions
(2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chakraborty, S., Papageorgiou, C., & Perez Sebastian, F. (2016). Health cycles and health transitions. Macroeconomic dynamics, 20(1), 189-213. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1365100514000297
We study the dynamics of poverty and health in a model of endogenous growth and rational health behavior. Population health depends on the prevalence of infectious diseases that can be avoided through costly prevention. The incentive to do so comes f... Read More about Health cycles and health transitions.