Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform

Eric Hanushek, Jens Ruhose () and Ludger Woessmann

No 16106, Economics Working Papers from Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Abstract: There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that educational achievement strongly predicts economic growth across U.S. states over the past four decades. Based on projections from our growth models, we show the enormous scope for state economic development through improving the quality of schools. While we consider the impact for each state of a range of educational reforms, an improvement that moves each state to the best-performing state would in the of long-run economic gains of over four times current GDP.

Pages: 63 pages
Date: 2016-04
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Working Paper: Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform (2015)
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