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Longevity, Age-Structure, and Optimal Schooling

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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. The application to French historical data from 1806 to nowadays shows that the population age structure has indeed modified the relationship between longevity and optimal schooling.
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halshs-01082317 , version 1 (13-11-2014)
halshs-01082317 , version 2 (06-02-2015)
halshs-01082317 , version 3 (30-09-2016)

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Noël Bonneuil, Raouf Boucekkine. Longevity, Age-Structure, and Optimal Schooling. 2016. ⟨halshs-01082317v3⟩
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