Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33370 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1962
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper we analyze investments in human capital assets in a way which is standard for financial assets, but not (yet) for human capital assets. We study mean-variance plots of human capital assets. We compare the properties of human capital returns using a performance measure and by using tests for mean-variance spanning. A risk-return trade-off is revealed, which is not only related to the length of education but also to the type of education. We identify a range of educations that are efficient in terms of investment goods, and a range of educations that are inefficient, and may be chosen for consumption purposes.
Subjects: 
educational choice
efficient frontier
human capital investment
mean-variance analysis
JEL: 
I21
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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