Life Expectancy, Schooling Time, Retirement, and Growth.

I analyze how changes in life expectancy affect retirement age, education time, and growth rates of economies. I set up a continuous time, overlapping generations model of endogenous growth with externalities in human capital production. I find that increases in life expectancy give rise to first, h...

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Published in:	Economic Inquiry Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 602 - 618
Main Author:	Echevarría, Cruz A.
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell October 2004
Subjects:	Retirement age Mathematical models Education & economics Mathematical models of life expectancy Gross national product
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