Longevity, Age-Structure, and Optimal Schooling

Noël Bonneuil () and Raouf Boucekkine ()
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Noël Bonneuil: Institut national d’études démographiques, EHESS, http://www.ined.fr/en/research/researchers/Bonneuil+Noel

No 1449, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: The mechanism stating that longer life implies larger investment in human capital, is premised on the view that individual decision-making governs the relationship between longevity and education. This relationship is revisited here from the perspective of optimal period school life expectancy, obtained from the utility maximization of the whole population characterized by its age structure and its age-specific fertility and mortality. Realistic life tables such as model life tables are mandatory, because the age distribution of mortality matters, notably at infant and juvenile ages. Optimal period school life expectancy varies with life expectancy and mortality. Applications to stable population models and then to French historical data from 1806 to nowadays show that the population age structure has indeed modified the relationship between longevity and optimal schooling.

Keywords: longevity; schooling; school life expectancy; age structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2014-11
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