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Title: Impact of oil booms and busts on human capital investment in the USA
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2017
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Abstract: This paper uses Census IPUMS data from 1970 to 2000 and ACS data from 2010 to estimate the impact of oil booms and busts on wages and human capital formation in the USA. The paper finds that the oil boom between 1970 and 1980 was associated with a slower growth in the relative demand for skills in the oil and gas sector and regions where the sector had a large presence. The oil boom led to a sharp rise in real wages and a modest decline in college wage premium in oil-rich regions in the USA. Using a synthetic cohort approach, the paper finds that relative to cohorts who went to high school in the pre-oil boom period, the cohort reaching high school age during the oil boom was about 1-2% points less likely to have a college degree by 2000 and 2010.
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Authors: Kumar, Anil
Periodical (Full): Empirical Economics
Issue: 3
Volume: 52
Pages: 1089-1113
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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