Life Expectancy and Schooling: New Insights from Cross-Country Data

Moshe Hazan ()

No 8524, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: I argue that distinguishing between life expectancy at birth and life expectancy beyond the crucial early childhood years affects the relationship between life expectancy and schooling in a meaningful way. 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 weakens the quantitative importance of increasing life horizon beyond the early crucial childhood years for formal acquisition of human capital.

Keywords: Human capital; Life expectancy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-08
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