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

Lutz Hendricks ()

No 361, 2004 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: 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

Keywords: Education; human capital; agglomeration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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