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

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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Year of publication:	2004
Authors:	Hendricks, Lutz
Institutions:	Society for Economic Dynamics - SED
Subject:	Education \| human capital \| agglomeration

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	2004 Meeting Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	The text is part of a series Society for Economic Dynamics 2004 Number 361
Classification:	J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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