The effect of life expectancy on education and population dynamics

Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde

Empirical Economics, 2015, vol. 48, issue 4, 1445-1478

Abstract: The demographic transition represents a critical turning point for population dynamics and economic development. As a consequence, the effects of life expectancy on education and population dynamics are expected to change across different stages of demographic development. This paper tests this hypothesis empirically by exploiting exogenous within-country reductions in mortality as a result of the epidemiological transition after 1940 that have been applied in recent studies on the causal effects of life expectancy for income growth. The results document a pronounced heterogeneity, and relevant non-linearities, of the effects of life expectancy on schooling and population dynamics at different stages of the demographic transition. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Keywords: Life expectancy; Education; Demographic transition; Population growth; Fertility; J10; J13; N30; O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s00181-014-0830-x

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