Chakraborty, Shankha; Das, Mausumi - Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics - 2003
parents are of poor health, unable to invest much in reducing mortality risk and improving their human capital. Consequently … status between the rich and the poor. This paper proposes a novel mechanism linking the two. We introduce health human … capital into a two-period overlapping generations model. Private health investment improves the probability of surviving from …