This essay analyzes the long-run economic effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya, with emphasis on fertility, education and child … interventions in the health sector in the early phase of the epidemic can strongly mitigate its adverse effects …. Two aspects are central to the analysis: First, a mature AIDS epidemic causes massive premature adult mortality, thereby …

parents choose optimal health expenditures for their children and themselves. The survival probability of (junior) adults and … period exogenous shocks to the survival rates. We identify three kinds of epidemics depending on how the epidemic shock … alters the marginal efficiency of health expenditures. We first study the demographic dynamics, and prove that while a one …

HIV-AIDS epidemic in developing countries. The direct effect of the HIV epidemic is that it increases mortality and … investigate the marginal efficiency of health expenditures on the survival probability of individuals and demographics. The direct … effect of the HIV virus is that it leads adults to increase their own health expenditure and to decrease that of their …

In this paper, the growth effect of health in Ghana is examined for the period 1982–2012. Life expectancy at birth is … used as proxy for health, and real per capita gross domestic product (GDP) for economic growth. The autoregressive … economic growth. The results show that good health significantly promotes economic growth, both in the short-run and long …

health, household income, and labor market participation by enhancing participants’ health knowledge and income …

should be addressed not only to social programs related with education, health and other basic conditions for wellbeing but …

We consider growth and welfare effects of lifetime-uncertainty in an economy with human capital-led endogenous growth … overlapping generations framework with finite-lived households we analyze the relevance of government expenditure on health and … education to counter such growth-reducing forces. We focus on three different models that differ with respect to the mode of …