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Title: Long-Run Educational Attainment Effects of Local Colleges: Evidence from the Establishment of U.S. Colleges
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Publication Year: 2021
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Abstract: We study the effects of a college on local education attainment using historical college establishment experiments in which runner-up locations were strongly considered to become college sites but ultimately not chosen for as-good-as-random reasons. While losing counties have since had opportunity to establish their own colleges, we show that winners have more years of exposure to a college over their history and are more likely to have a college today. Using this variation, we find that winners have 14 percentage points higher contemporary rates of bachelor's and graduate degree attainment. This educational attainment gap has widened over time.
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Authors: Russell, Lauren; Yu, Lei; Andrews, Michael J
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Topics: Education
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