Azad, Kalam (2020): Better Health Impacts on Education.
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Abstract
We analyze the effects of life expectancy on human capital with a big longitudinal yearly dataset over 2019-2015 for 143 countries. Our panel estimators capture country fixed effects and persistence in human capital. The preferred baseline estimates show that there is a significantly positive and robust relationship between life expectancy and human capital. When addressing the endogeneity of life expectancy with instruments, our preferred results remain comparable. Our analysis suggests that parents with improved life expectancy prefer quality child over quantity by reducing fertility and investing savings in child education.
| Item Type: | MPRA Paper |
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| Original Title: | Better Health Impacts on Education |
| English Title: | Better Health Impacts on Education |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | Human Capital, Life Expectancy, Mortality, Survival, Saving, Fertility |
| Subjects: | I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I0 - General > I00 - General I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I12 - Health Behavior |
| Item ID: | 102951 |
| Depositing User: | Mr Kalam Azad |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Sep 2020 13:33 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Sep 2020 13:33 |
| References: | Patry, Luc Rahman, MD Mahbubur |
| URI: | https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/102951 |
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