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- doi: 10.1016/j.jedc.2009.09.003
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Epidemics Orphans Income distribution Endogenous survival Medium-term dynamics O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth/O.O1 - Economic Development D - Microeconomics/D.D9 - Intertemporal Choice I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I1 - Health I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I2 - Education and Research InstitutionsSujets proches
Disease outbreaks Outbreaks of disease Pestilences Diseases--OutbreaksCiter ce document
Raouf Boucekkine et al., « On the distributional consequences of epidemics », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10.1016/j.jedc.2009.09.003
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We develop a tractable general theory for the study of the economic and demographic impact of epidemics, notably its distributional consequences. To this end, we build up a three-period overlapping generations model where altruistic parents choose optimal health expenditures for their children and themselves. The survival probability of adults and children depends on such investments. Agents can be skilled or unskilled. In this paper, epidemics are modeled as one-period exogenous shocks to the adults' survival rates. We first show that such epidemics have permanent effects on the size of population and on the level of output. However, the income distribution is shown to be unaltered in the long-run. Second, we show that this distribution may be significantly altered in the medium-term: in particular, the proportion of the unskilled will necessarily increase at that term if orphans are too penalized in the access to education.