Education and Growth with Endogenous Debt Constraints

David de la Croix

No 2004020, LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES from Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)

Abstract: When future human capital cannot be alienated, households are allowed to borrow up to the point where it is in their own interest not to default. In such a framework, endogenous borrowing limits arise as the outcome of individual rationality constraint. In a model where education is the engine of growth, we show that endogenous borrowing constraints imply global indeterminacy. Comparing outcomes across the various equilibria we show that the relation between growth and yields is hump-shaped. Maximum growth can arise in an equilibrium with binding borrowing constraints, specially if the elasticity if human capital to education spending is large. Deepening financial markets promotes long-run growth in the case of a poverty trap, but not necessarily otherwise.

Keywords: Financial depth; borrowing constraints; indeterminacy; incentive compatibility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 J24 O16 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-10-01
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