Spatial Variation in Higher Education Financing and the Supply of College Graduates

John Kennan

No 21065, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: In the U.S. there are large differences across States in the extent to which college education is subsidized, and there are also large differences across States in the proportion of college graduates in the labor force. State subsidies are apparently motivated in part by the perceived benefits of having a more educated workforce. The paper extends the migration model of Kennan and Walker (2011) to analyze how geographical variation in college education subsidies affects the migration decisions of college graduates. The model is estimated using NLSY data, and used to quantify the sensitivity of migration and college enrollment decisions to differences in expected net lifetime income, focusing on how cross-State differences in public college financing affect the educational composition of the labor force. The main finding is that these differences have substantial effects on college enrollment, and that these effects are not dissipated through migration.

JEL-codes: I22 I23 J24 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-04
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