Life expectancy and human capital: long-run evidence from a panel of countries

Dierk Herzer

Applied Economics Letters, 2017, vol. 24, issue 17, 1247-1250

Abstract: This article examines the long-run impact of life expectancy on human capital investment for a panel of 14 countries over the period 1870–2010. Using recently developed panel time series techniques, we find (i) that life expectancy at birth has a statistically significant long-run effect on schooling and (ii) that long-run causality is unidirectional from life expectancy to schooling.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1270405

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