Education and population dynamics

Duque Cardona, Juan CarlosRestrepo, Diego Alexander2019-02-192018http://hdl.handle.net/10784/13445The economic literature identiﬁes two eﬀects of schooling on population structure: a negative eﬀect of parent’s schooling on fertility and a positive eﬀect of schooling on life expectancy. As schooling increases, the population pyramid tend to morph from a triangular to a dome shape. In this work, we review the eﬀects of schooling on the evolution of population pyramid shapes at diﬀerent geographical scales (e.g., country, state, city). We use this relationship to explain the future shape of the population pyramid in a simple way. We ﬁnd that schooling, measured as average years of education, can robustly explain up to 70% of the evolution of the population piramide shape 25 years ahead at any geographical scale. JEL Codes: E70, I21, J11, J13spaPirámide de población, escolarización, educación, leyes naturales, fertilidad, natalidad, esperanza de vida.Education and population dynamicsmasterThesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessDinámica de la poblaciónEducación-aspectos demográficosPopulation Pyramid, Schooling, Education, Natural Laws, Fertility, Natality, Life ExpectancyAcceso cerrado2019-02-19Echeverri Figueroa, Julian370.7 E184