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Santé environnementale des enfants, éducation et développement économique .
Author(s) -
Raffin Natacha
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2012.01724.x
Subject(s) - poverty trap , environmental quality , human capital , kuznets curve , poverty , overlapping generations model , economics , productivity , quality (philosophy) , capital (architecture) , economic growth , economic system , labour economics , ecology , geography , biology , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology
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.