TY  - GEN
T1  - Children’s health, human capital accumulation, and R&D-based economic growth
A1  - Baldanzi,Annarita
A1  - Bucci,Alberto
A1  - Prettner,Klaus
Y1  - 2017/02/27
N2  - We analyze the effects of childrens health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this purpose we design an R&D-based growth model in which the stock of human capital of the next generation is determined by parental education and health investments. We show that i) there is a complementarity between education and health: if parents want to have better educated children, they also raise health investments and vice versa; ii) parental health investments exert an unambiguously positive effect on long-run economic growth, iii) faster population growth reduces long-run economic growth. These results are consistent with the empirical evidence for modern economies in the twentieth century.
KW  - Kind
KW  - Gesundheit
KW  - Bildungsniveau
KW  - Humankapital
KW  - Wirtschaftswachstum
CY  - Hohenheim
PB  - Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim
AD  - Garbenstr. 15, 70593 Stuttgart
UR  - http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/volltexte/2017/1329
ER  -