The effect of life expectancy on education and population dynamics

被引:17
作者
Cervellati, Matteo [1 ]
Sunde, Uwe [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[2] Univ Munich, Munich, Germany
关键词
Life expectancy; Education; Demographic transition; Population growth; Fertility; DEMOGRAPHIC-TRANSITION; ECONOMIC-GROWTH; FERTILITY; MORTALITY; LONGEVITY; MODEL; ATTAINMENT; DECLINE; CHILD;
D O I
10.1007/s00181-014-0830-x
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
The demographic transition represents a critical turning point for population dynamics and economic development. As a consequence, the effects of life expectancy on education and population dynamics are expected to change across different stages of demographic development. This paper tests this hypothesis empirically by exploiting exogenous within-country reductions in mortality as a result of the epidemiological transition after 1940 that have been applied in recent studies on the causal effects of life expectancy for income growth. The results document a pronounced heterogeneity, and relevant non-linearities, of the effects of life expectancy on schooling and population dynamics at different stages of the demographic transition.
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页码:1445 / 1478
页数:34
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