This paper investigates how population aging affects economic growth in a general equilibrium model of life cycle savings combined with endogenous growth. It shows that population aging is not necessarily a negative factor for growth. Introducing an old age pension system into the model, the...

This paper examines the economic growth effects of limited availability of higher education in a simple endogenous growth model with overlapping generations. With limited availability, the scarcity of human capital keeps its price high and distributes a larger share of the aggregate output to...

Using an overlapping generations model, this note shows that an improvement in the effciency of human capital production decreases the net income of the young household while increasing that of the old. Without compensating redistribution, it deteriorates lifetime utilities of all generations...