TY - JOUR
T1 - Life expectancy and schooling
T2 - New insights from cross-country data
AU - Hazan, Moshe
PY - 2012/10
Y1 - 2012/10
N2 - I argue that the relationship between life expectancy and schooling crucially depends on which measure of life expectancy one uses. In particular, I show that while the change in life expectancy at birth between 1960 and 1990 is positively correlated with percentage change in schooling, the change in life expectancy at age 5 is, at best, uncorrelated with percentage change in schooling. This evidence suggests that increasing life horizon beyond the early crucial childhood years for formal acquisition of human capital is not as quantitatively important as previously thought.
AB - I argue that the relationship between life expectancy and schooling crucially depends on which measure of life expectancy one uses. In particular, I show that while the change in life expectancy at birth between 1960 and 1990 is positively correlated with percentage change in schooling, the change in life expectancy at age 5 is, at best, uncorrelated with percentage change in schooling. This evidence suggests that increasing life horizon beyond the early crucial childhood years for formal acquisition of human capital is not as quantitatively important as previously thought.
KW - Economic growth
KW - Human capital
KW - Life expectancy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84862630943&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00148-011-0392-6
DO - 10.1007/s00148-011-0392-6
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AN - SCOPUS:84862630943
SN - 0933-1433
VL - 25
SP - 1237
EP - 1248
JO - Journal of Population Economics
JF - Journal of Population Economics
IS - 4
ER -
