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Conditioning Public Pensions on Health: Effects on Capital Accumulation and Welfare

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  • Giorgio Fabbri

    (GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Marie-Louise Leroux

    (UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal, CORE - Center of Operation Research and Econometrics [Louvain] - UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain, CESifo, Munich)

  • Paolo Melindi-Ghidi

    (AMSE - Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Willem Sas

    (University of Stirling, UHasselt - Hasselt University, CESifo, Munich, UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain, Department of Economics [Leuven] - KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Abstract

This paper develops an overlapping generations model that links a public health system to a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension system. It relies on two assumptions. First, the health system directly finances curative health spending on the elderly. Second, public pensions partially depend on health status by introducing a component indexed to society's average level of old-age disability. Reducing the average disability rate in the economy then lowers pension benefits as the need to finance long-term care services also drops. We study the effects of introducing such a 'comprehensive' Social Security system on individual decisions, capital accumulation, and welfare. We first show that health investments can boost savings and capital accumulation under certain conditions. Second, if individuals are sufficiently concerned with their health when old, it is optimal to introduce a health-dependent pension system, as this will raise social welfare compared to a system where pensions are not tied to the society's average level of old-age disability. Our analysis thus highlights an important policy recommendation: making PAYG pension schemes partially health-dependent can be beneficial to society.

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  • Giorgio Fabbri & Marie-Louise Leroux & Paolo Melindi-Ghidi & Willem Sas, 2024. "Conditioning Public Pensions on Health: Effects on Capital Accumulation and Welfare," Working Papers hal-04492428, HAL.
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    1. Pablo Garcia Sanchez & Luca Marchiori & Olivier Pierrard, 2024. "Healthy aging and capital accumulation," BCL working papers 189, Central Bank of Luxembourg.
    2. Pablo Garcia Sanchez & Luca Marchiori & Olivier Pierrard, 2025. "Long-term care expenditures and investment decisions under uncertainty," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 38(1), pages 1-23, March.

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    JEL classification:

    • H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
    • O41 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models

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