Download or read book The Optimal Accumulation of Human Capital Over the Life Cycle written by John W. Graham and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper summarizes the important contributions of the new life cycle human capital literature and demonstrates that many of these results can be derived more simply than in their original presentations. Within three period discrete-time framework it is demonstrated how the optimal pattern of human capital investment over the life cycle depends upon the choice of the objective function, the life cycle of leisure, and the extent of nonmarket benefits of human capital. The paper offers sufficient conditions for the optimality of a profile of monotonically declining investment activity over the life cycle.