Life Expectancy at Birth and Lifetime Education and Earnings

Mohammad Mainul Hoque, Elizabeth King, Claudio Montenegro and Peter Orazem

No 9418, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: Exploiting cross–birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveysfrom 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. Onaverage, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life expectancy at birth. Lifetimeearnings increase by 1.7 percent per year of added life expectancy at birth. The estimates imply that rising lifeexpectancy at birth explains 75 percent of the increase in average years of schooling worldwide for birth cohortsbetween 1922 and 1987 and 38 percent of the increase in average gross domestic product per capita in the 20th century.

Keywords: Population & Development; Educational Sciences; Health Care Services Industry; Law and Justice Institutions; Labor Markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-09-30
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