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)
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• Raising Juveniles, Games and Economic Behavior, 74(1), 2012, 32-51.
  (Clive Bell, Hans Gersbach and Maik T. Schneider)
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• Vote-Buying and Growth, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 15(5), 2011, 656-680.
  (Hans Gersbach and Felix Mühe)
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• Land Reforms and Economic Development, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 14(4), 2010, 527-547.
  (Hans Gersbach and Lars Siemers)
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• Child Labor and the Education of a Society, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 13(2), 2009, 220-249.
  (Clive Bell and Hans Gersbach)
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• The Macroeconomics of Targeting: The Case of an Enduring Epidemic, Journal of Health Economics, 28(1), 2009, 54-72.
  (Clive Bell and Hans Gersbach)
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• 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

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  (Clive Bell, Hans Gersbach and Evgenij Komarov)

Team Members

• Hans Gersbach

Cooperation Partners

• external pageClive Bellcall_made (University of Heidelberg)