On the Interaction between Education and Social Security

Juan Rojas

Review of Economic Dynamics, 2004, vol. 7, issue 4, 932-957

Abstract: Abstract: This paper uses an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility choices to analyze the quantitative costs and benefits of subsidizing higher education, paying particular attention to the interaction between such policy and the sustainability of the social security system. The paper focuses on the demographic change as the mechanism that link both policies. It is found that an increase in education subsidies changes the educational composition of the population and lowers average fertility. Lower average fertility and higher life expectancy of educated individuals translates into changes in the age structure of the population that requires an increase in the social security tax rate in order to balance the pension budget. Such process reduces the welfare benefits of this educational policy since the rise in social security taxes lowers the after-tax lifetime earnings of almost all individuals born in the period of the policy reform and over. (Copyright: Elsevier)

Keywords: Education subsidies; Demographic change; Social security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D58 H55 I28 J10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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