ArticleHealth economics2023
Life expectancy and human capital: New empirical evidence.
Article in Health economics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Socioeconomic, institutional, environmental, and demographic determinants of population health in 90 developing countries: panel data evidence.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Longevity, Education, and Income: How large is the triangle?Journal of health economics · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal effect of internet use on life expectancy: cross-country insight from a geographically and temporally weighted analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Life expectancy and human capital: New empirical evidence.Health economics · 2023Article
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Abstract
This paper re-examines a well-established hypothesis postulating that life expectancy augments incentives for human capital accumulation, leading to global income differences. A major distinguishing feature of the current study is to estimate heterogeneous panel data models under a common factor framework, which explicitly accounts for parameter heterogeneity, unobserved common factors (UCFs), and variables' non-stationarity. In sharp contrast to most previous studies, I find that the impact of health improvements on human capital accumulation turns out to be imprecisely estimated at conventionally accepted levels of statistical significance. I demonstrate that conventional estimates of the educational returns to rising longevity are derived from estimating misspecified models at least partially due to parameter heterogeneity and the presence of UCFs.
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