This paper introduces unfunded pay-as-you-go public pensions in a two-period overlapping generations model with endogenous lifetime à la Chakraborty (2004). We study the transitional dynamics and steady states outcomes showing that the public provision of health services may have not only the well-known beneficial effect to help to escape from poverty, but it can also produce unexpected negative consequences for per capita GDP in both low-income–high-mortality and high-income–low-mortality economies. Moreover, under myopic expectations, the government health expenditure can generate non-monotonic fluctuations in low mortality societies.
Public health spending and unfunded public pensions in an OLG model of neoclassical growth: some new results about the poverty trap problem
Luciano Fanti;Luca Gori
2011-01-01
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This paper introduces unfunded pay-as-you-go public pensions in a two-period overlapping generations model with endogenous lifetime à la Chakraborty (2004). We study the transitional dynamics and steady states outcomes showing that the public provision of health services may have not only the well-known beneficial effect to help to escape from poverty, but it can also produce unexpected negative consequences for per capita GDP in both low-income–high-mortality and high-income–low-mortality economies. Moreover, under myopic expectations, the government health expenditure can generate non-monotonic fluctuations in low mortality societies.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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