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La acumulación de capital, y por lo tanto el ahorro, tienen un papel fundamental en el crecimiento económico. El objetivo de este artículo es modelar las principales situaciones en que, para un agente racional resulta óptimo no ahorrar sino dedicar sus recursos a otros objetivos, como puede ser la acumulación de capital humano. Desde el punto de vista de su estructura económica, la inversión en capital humano sucede en dos etapas: la primera corresponde a la niñez y la segunda a la etapa laboral de la vida. Para analizar el problema de las necesidades infantiles, agregamos un período de vida más al modelo de Diamond (1965), la etapa infantil. Examinamos el comportamiento diferenciado de los agentes según su riqueza cuando, al decidir sobre la educación de sus hijos deciden sobre la formación de capital humano. Encontramos que una familia representativa de pocos recursos dedica su ingreso a la formación de capital humano y por lo tanto no ahorra. Esto sucede aún más en una economía abierta en que la tasa de interés del exterior es más baja que la doméstica. / The accumulation of capital, and therefore savings, have a key role in economic growth. The aim of this paper is to model the main situations where, for a rational agent is optimal not to save but to devote its resources to other objectives, such as human capital accumulation. From the point of view of its economic structure, investment in human capital takes place in two stages: the fi rst is the childhood and the second labor stage of life. To analyze the problem of children’s needs, we added a further life span model of Diamond (1965), the infant stage. Examine the differential behavior of agents based on their wealth when, in deciding on the education of their children decide on human capital formation. We found that a representative family of few resources spends his income to the formation of human capital and therefore not saved. This happens even in an open economy where the foreign interest rate is lower than domestic.
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AAlí-Bujari, Alí. & Ríos-Bolivar, Humberto., 2010.
"Formación de capital humano y ahorro intergeneracional,"
Panorama Económico, Escuela Superior de Economía, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, vol. 0(11), pages 115-138, segundo s.
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RePEc:ipn:panora:v:vi:y:2010:i:11:p:115-138
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