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Title: Educational Attainment in U.S. Cities

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Publication Year: 2007

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Abstract: This paper proposes a theory of educational attainment differences across U.S. metropolitan areas. The theory is motivated by the finding that employment in business services predicts more than 70% of the observed cross-city variation in education. In the model, agglomeration economies in the production of business services, which are complementary with skilled labor, account for cross-city variation in education. The theory makes a number of testable predictions which find strong support in U.S. data.

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Authors: Hendricks, Lutz

Publisher: Society for Economic Dynamics

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education

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