Aging society, health and the environment

Balestra, Carlotta; Dottori, Davide

doi:10.1007/s00148-011-0380-x

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“…Curtis et al (2015) show that demographic patterns are able to explain over half of the household savings rate fluctuations in China, while Sánchez-Romero (2013) finds that the demographic transition in Taiwan, during the period 8 Notice that in our modelling, demographic variables are exogenous and temperature changes only affect production. Several studies assess the effect of population aging on emissions and the environment, see Balestra and Dottori (2012), Jouvet et al (2010), Varvarigos (2010), Mariani et al (2010), andOno (2005). De la Croix and Gosseries (2012) study the effect of climate policies on fertility and human capital.…”

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Global Demographic Change and Climate Policies

Gerlagh

Jaimes

Motavasseli³

2017

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate dropped from 5 to about 2.5. We develop and calibrate an analytic climate-economy model with overlapping generations to study the effect of such demographic change on capital markets and optimal climate policies. Our model replicates findings from the OLG-demography literature, such as a rise in households' savings, and a declining rate of return to capital. We also find that demographic change raises the social cost of carbon, at 2020, from 28 euro/tCO 2 in a model that abstracts from demography, to 94 euro/tCO 2 in our calibrated model. JEL-Codes: H230, J110, Q540, Q580. Terms of use: Documents in

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Section: Further Literaturementioning

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Global Demographic Change and Climate Policies

Gerlagh

Jaimes

Motavasseli³

2017

SSRN Journal

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“…Theoretical papers like Blackburn and Cipriani (2002), Chakraborty (2004) or Cervelatti and Sunde (2005) also provide an illustration to such arguments. 1 Unfortunately, economic growth might also be a source of negative externalities by deteriorating the environment. This damaging effect is not without consequences on health status, but it even may be a major cause of reduced longevity.…”

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Longevity, pollution and growth

Raffin

Seegmuller

2014

Mathematical Social Sciences

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We analyze the interplay between longevity, pollution and growth. We develop an OLG model where longevity, pollution and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental maintenance, that participate to increase agents' life expectancy and to sustain growth in the long term. We show that global dynamics might be featured by a high growth rate equilibrium, associated with longer life expectancy and a environmental poverty trap. We examine changes in public policies: increasing public intervention on health or environmental maintenance display opposite effects on global dynamics, i.e. on the size of the trap and on the level of the stable balanced growth path. On the contrary, each type of public policy induces a negative leverage on the long run rate of growth.

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“…Environmental quality is a key dimension of people's well-being, as quality of life is strongly affected by a healthy environment (Holman & Coan, 2008;Kahn, 2002) and has a direct impact on human health. Besides affecting people's health, the environment also matters intrinsically as many people attach importance to the beauty and the healthiness of the place where they live (Balestra& Dottori, 2011;Kahn, & Matsusaka, 1997). People also directly benefit from environmental assets and services, such as water, clean air, lands, forests, and access to green spaces, as these assets allow them to satisfy basic needs and to enjoy free time and the company of others (Pretty, Peacock, Sellens, & Griffin, 2005;Balestra, & Sultan, 2011).…”

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Comparative Assessment of Environmental Indicators of Quality of Life in Romania and Lithuania

Štreimikienė¹

2014

E&S

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The paper presents a comparative study to assess quality of life in terms of environment in Lithuania and Romania. It introduces a system of indicators for assessing environmental issues of quality of life in these two countries. The environmental dimension is one of the major issues affecting quality of life as the environment, first and foremost, provides for healthy living conditions. The environmental indicators being assessed can be organized into 3 major groups of environmental indicators: environmental quality, environmentally responsible behaviour, and consumption of environmental services. These groups of indicators are closely interrelated as environmentally responsible behaviour has positive impact on environmental quality, and improved environmental quality provides for higher consumption of services provided by the environment. The dynamics of these integrated environmental indicators relevant to quality of life were investigated and compared in Lithuania and Romania, and policy recommendations were developed.

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Aging society, health and the environment

Cited by 38 publications

References 45 publications

Global Demographic Change and Climate Policies

Global Demographic Change and Climate Policies

Longevity, pollution and growth

Comparative Assessment of Environmental Indicators of Quality of Life in Romania and Lithuania

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