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...