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Title: Health, Education, and Income in the United States, 1820–2000

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: The United States experienced large increases in educational attainment starting in the late nineteenth century and well into the twentieth century. Years of schooling among those in the labor force rose by about six years, from about 7.5 years in 1915 to 13.5 years in 2005 (Goldin and Katz 2008). Incomes also rose quite substantially, with real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growing an average of 2.23 percent per year in the same period. A large amount of research has been devoted to understanding the factors that led to the rise in education, whether these increases in education led to the higher incomes we observe, or whether other factors led to the rapid increases in both (Card 2001).

Url: https://www.nber.org/chapters/c12900.pdf

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Authors: Bleakley, Hoyt; Costa, Dora; Lleras-Muney, Adriana

Editors: Boustan, Leah Platt; Frydman, Carola; Margo, Robert A.

Pages: 121-159

Volume Title: Human Capital in History: The American Record

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Population Data Science

Countries: United States