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Title: Growth and Epidemic Diseases

Author(s): Clive Bell and Hans Gersbach

Publication Date: December 2004

Keyword(s): AIDS, epidemic diseases, growth, human capital and pooling risks

Programme Area(s): Institutions and Economic Performance and International Macroeconomics

Abstract: We study the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when a society is assailed by an epidemic disease such as AIDS. We establish that the disease can severely retard economic growth, even to the point of leading to an economic collapse. We also show that the epidemic may exacerbate inequality. Pooling health risks in the society puts the society on a ?make and break? road.

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Bell, C and Gersbach, H. 2004. 'Growth and Epidemic Diseases'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=4800