Huggett, Mark; Kaplan, Greg - Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department … - 2013
exceed stock returns early in life and decline with age, (3) the stock component of the value of human capital is smaller …. These concepts are examined using U.S. data on male earnings and financial asset returns. We find that (1) the value of … human capital is far below the value implied by discounting earnings at the risk-free rate, (2) mean human capital returns …