Healthy, educated and wealthy: A primer on the impact of public and private welfare expenditures on economic growth

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 946-956

  Beraldo, Sergio ^a   Montolio, Daniel ^b   Turati, Gilberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Economic growth; Education; Health; Public and private expenditure

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349296791     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2009.06.013     Document Type: Article

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