Epidemic Diseases, Poverty and Political Institutions
In this project, we examine the interdependencies between epidemic diseases, human capital accumulation, inequality and growth. The main questions are:
- How large are the long-run economic costs of epidemic diseases?
- How should optimal policy programs be designed to combat epidemic diseases?
- How should programs to alleviate poverty be designed?
- How can land reforms help to overcome poverty?
- Which political institutions can help societies to escape from poverty traps?
Publications
- Can Democracy Induce Development? A Constitutional Perspective, Public Choice, 159(1-2), 2014, 177-196.
(Hans Gersbach and Lars Siemers)
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- Growth and Enduring Epidemic Diseases, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 37(10), 2013, 2083-2103.
(Clive Bell and Hans Gersbach)
Download Working Paper Version - Raising Juveniles, Games and Economic Behavior, 74(1), 2012, 32-51.
(Clive Bell, Hans Gersbach and Maik T. Schneider)
Download Working Paper Version - Vote-Buying and Growth, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 15(5), 2011, 656-680.
(Hans Gersbach and Felix Mühe)
Download Working Paper Version - Land Reforms and Economic Development, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 14(4), 2010, 527-547.
(Hans Gersbach and Lars Siemers)
Download PDF Download - Child Labor and the Education of a Society, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 13(2), 2009, 220-249.
(Clive Bell and Hans Gersbach)
Download Working Paper Version - The Macroeconomics of Targeting: The Case of an Enduring Epidemic, Journal of Health Economics, 28(1), 2009, 54-72.
(Clive Bell and Hans Gersbach)
Download Working Paper Version - The Long-run Economic Costs of AIDS: Theory and an Application to South Africa, World Bank Economic Review, 20(1), 2006, 55-89.
(Clive Bell, Shantayanan Devarajan and Hans Gersbach)
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Working Papers
- Download Untimely Destruction: Pestilence, War and Accumulation in the Long Run
(Clive Bell, Hans Gersbach and Evgenij Komarov)
Team Members
Cooperation Partners
- external page Clive Bell (University of Heidelberg)