Schools or Hospitals? Mortality, Allocation of Government Expenditure and Growth

The allocation of resources between education and health is an important and puzzling decision for the governments in countries with high mortality rate. We build a three-period overlapping generation model with mortality risk and show that if public education expenditure exceeds a critical value, young cohort loses incentives to study and growth effects of public education expenditure becomes negative

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Iqbal, Kazi
Publisher:	[2009]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Sterblichkeit \| Mortality \| Krankenhaus \| Hospital \| Öffentliche Ausgaben \| Public expenditure \| Bildungsfinanzierung \| Education finance \| Wirtschaftswachstum \| Economic growth \| Bildungsinvestition \| Human capital investment \| Theorie \| Theory \| Schätzung \| Estimation

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (11 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments June 25, 2009 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.1425851 [DOI]
Classification:	H3 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents ; H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies ; O41 - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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