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Why does educational attainment differ across U.S. states?

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Lutz Hendricks

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College attainment differs nearly two-fold across U.S. states. This paper shows that highly educated states employ skill-biased technologies, specialize in skill-intensive industries, but do not pay lower skill premia. A theory based on agglomeration economies is developed to account for these observations

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Paper provided by Society for Economic Dynamics in its series 2004 Meeting Papers with number 361.

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Keywords: Education; human capital; agglomeration;

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J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
R11 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Analysis of Growth, Development, and Changes

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  1. Linnea Polgreen & Pedro Silos, 2005. "Capital-skill complementarity and inequality: a sensitivity analysis," Working Paper 2005-20, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Roc Armenter & Francesc Ortega, 2007. "Credible Redistributive Policies and Migration across US States," Economics Working Papers 1022, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. [Downloadable!]
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