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Children's environmental health, education and economid development

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  • Natacha Raffin

    (EconomiX - EconomiX - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

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This article aims at investigating the interplay between environmental quality, health, and economic development in a unified OLG framework. Human capital accumulation depends on the environment through its impact on children’s health and workers’ productivity. In turn, environmental quality dynamics rely upon human capital that determines maintenance efforts. This two‐way relationship generates a co‐evolution of human capital and environmental quality in the long run. Along the transition path, the dynamic interactions between economic and environmental spheres allow for replicating two different trajectories: some economies experiment an Environmental Kuznets Curve while some others are caught into the environmental poverty trap. Cet article examine les interactions entre la qualité de l’environnement, la santé et le développement économique dans un cadre d’analyse à générations imbriquées. L’accumulation du capital humain dépend de l’environnement à travers ses impacts sur la santé des enfants et la productivité des travailleurs. En retour, la dynamique de la qualité de l’environnement dépend du capital humain qui assure les efforts de maintenance environnementale. Cette relation bilatérale engendre une coévolution du capital humain et de la qualité de l’environnement à longue terme. Le long du sentier de transition, les interactions dynamiques entre les sphères économique et environnementale donnent naissance à deux trajectoires différentes: certaines économies font l’expérience d’une courbe environnementale à la Kuznets alors que d’autres sont engluées dans le cycle de détérioration environnementale et de pauvreté.
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  • Natacha Raffin, 2012. "Children's environmental health, education and economid development," Post-Print hal-01385824, HAL.
  • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01385824
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    1. Constant, Karine, 2019. "Environmental policy and human capital inequality: A matter of life and death," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 134-157.
    2. Constant, Karine & Davin, Marion, 2021. "Pollution, children’s health and the evolution of human capital inequality," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 112(C), pages 9-25.
    3. repec:hal:wpaper:hal-00930936 is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Natacha Raffin & Thomas Seegmuller, 2017. "The Cost of Pollution on Longevity, Welfare and Economic Stability," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 68(3), pages 683-704, November.
    5. Mathieu-Bolh, Nathalie & Pautrel, Xavier, 2016. "Reassessing the effects of environmental taxation when pollution affects health over the life-cycle," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 52(PB), pages 310-321.
    6. Karine Constant, 2015. "Environmental Policy and Inequality: A Matter of Life and Death," Working Papers halshs-01174052, HAL.
    7. Johanna Etner & Natacha Raffin & Thomas Seegmuller, 2016. ""The Falling Sperm Counts Story": A Limit to Growth?," AMSE Working Papers 1625, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France, revised 04 Jul 2016.
    8. Nathalie Mathieu-Bolh & Xavier Pautrel, 2014. "Environmental taxation, health and the life-cycle," Working Papers hal-00990256, HAL.
    9. Karine Constant & Natacha Raffin, 2016. "Environnement, croissance et inégalités : le rôle particulier du canal de la santé," Revue française d'économie, Presses de Sciences-Po, vol. 0(3), pages 9-29.

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    JEL classification:

    • D90 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General
    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development

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