Boucekkine, Raouf; Desbordes, Rodolphe; Latzer, Hélène - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2007
This paper is concerned with the impact of epidemics on economic behavior, and in particular on fertility and schooling. Special attention is paid to the fertility eect, which has been at the heart of a recent controversy around the AIDS crisis. An illustrative model is proposed where agents...