Recent work suggests that the area of the United States in which a child is raised has a substantial effect on their income in adulthood. We measure differences in time use between areas which are better or worse at producing incomes in adulthood. The main differences are that, in areas which...

Do standardized test scores in a community indicate whether schools there are effective at producing human capital? Counties with high average test scores produce high-earning adults. But, using data from North Carolina, we find that counties' effects on test scores are either uncorrelated (for...