Human Capital Inequality, Life Expectancy and Economic Growth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9719372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amparo Castelló‐Climent (Universitat de València), Rafael Doménech (0000-0002-4174-8942, Universitat de València) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue | 528 |
| Pages | 653-677 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02136.x |
| OpenAlex | W1511699701 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 52 |
This paper presents a model in which inequality affects per capita income when individuals decide to invest in education taking into account their life expectancy, which depends to a large extent on the human capital of their parents. Our results show the existence of multiple steady states depending on the initial distribution of education. The low steady state is a poverty trap in which children raised in poor families have low life expectancy and work as non-educated workers. The empirical evidence suggests that the life expectancy mechanism explains a major part of the relationship between inequality and human capital accumulation
Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Empirical evidence · Human capital · Income distribution · Inequality · Labour economics · Life expectancy · Per capita · Population · Poverty · Poverty trap · Sociology · Demography · Economic Growth and Productivity · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,94 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |