Arbeitspapier
Revisiting the Lucas model
We revisit the influential economic growth model by Lucas (1988) ["On the mechanics of economic development." Journal of Monetary Economics, 22(1):3-42], assuming that households optimally allocate consumption and education over the life-cycle given an exogenous interest rate and exogenous wages. We show that in such a partial equilibrium setting, the original two-state (physical capital and human capital) optimization problem can be decomposed into two single-state optimal control models. This transformation allows us to rigorously prove the existence of a singular control describing the allocation of education time along a balanced growth path. We derive a constructive condition for a singular control to exist and show that under this condition infinitely many singular controls are optimal in the individual household problem. In contrast to the original general equilibrium framework in which an agent always chooses part-time education and part-time work, in our framework such an agent might find it optimal to allocate her whole available time to education at the beginning of her life and to focus on labor supply only when she is older.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ECON WPS ; No. 03/2015
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling: General
One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
Education and Research Institutions: General
- Thema
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optimal lifetime education
optimal control
singular control
economic growth
human capital
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Skritek, Bernhard
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús
Kryazhimskii, Arkadii V.
Prettner, Klaus
Prskawetz, Alexia
Rovenskaya, Elena
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, Research Group Economics
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Vienna
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Skritek, Bernhard
- Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús
- Kryazhimskii, Arkadii V.
- Prettner, Klaus
- Prskawetz, Alexia
- Rovenskaya, Elena
- Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics, Research Group Economics
Entstanden
- 2015
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