Aspirations, health and the cost of inequality

DOI10.1016/j.jedc.2017.10.008zbMath1401.91051OpenAlexW1657250708MaRDI QIDQ1657157

Shankha Chakraborty, Jeffrey C. Allen

Publication date: 13 August 2018

Published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics \& Control (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/64087/1/MPRA_paper_64087.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

inequalityheterogeneous agentshealthaspirationsconsumption externalityGrossman modelrelative income and health gradient

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Welfare economics (91B15)

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