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Title: The Effect of College Location on the Migration of College-Educated Labor

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: This paper investigates whether going to college in a state impacts the decision to locate in the state after college. Estimating the effect of college location on migration is difficult because location preferences are involved in both the choice of where to go to college and the choice of where to live after college. For a sample of U.S. undergraduate students from the newly collected College and Beyond data set, I control for students' location preferences before they enter college using information on the set of colleges they applied to. I find that college location has modest effects on location decisions of college graduates. Attending college outside one's home state increases the probability of living outside the state and, in particular, increases the probability of living in the state of the college.

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Authors: Groen, A.Jeffrey

Conference Name: APPAM Fall Research Conference

Publisher Location: Washington, DC

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Topics: Education, Housing and Segregation, Migration and Immigration

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