Higher Education and Local Educational Attainment: Evidence from the Establishment of U.S. Colleges

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dc.contributor.authorRussell, Lauren
dc.contributor.authorYu, Lei
dc.contributor.authorAndrews, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-15T17:12:55Z
dc.date.available2021-09-15T17:12:55Z
dc.date.issued2024-07-08
dc.description.abstractWe investigate how the presence of a college affects local educational attainment. As counterfactuals for current college locations, we use historical “runner-up” locations that were strongly considered to become college sites but were ultimately not chosen. We find that winning counties today have college degree attainment rates 56% higher than runner-up counties and more private-sector employment in human-capital-intensive industries. These effects are not driven primarily by recent in-migration of educated adults, and alternative public investments did not have similar effects on local educational attainment. The results indicate that colleges played an important role in shaping long-run local outcomes.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://direct.mit.edu/rest/article/doi/10.1162/rest_a_01214/111512/Higher-Education-and-Local-Educational-Attainmenten_US
dc.format.extent11 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2nya1-2xqk
dc.identifier.citationLauren C. Russell, Lei Yu, Michael J. Andrews; Higher Education and Local Educational Attainment: Evidence from the Establishment of U.S. Colleges. The Review of Economics and Statistics 2024; 106 (4): 1146–1156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01214en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01214
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/22987
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherMIT Pressen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Economics Department Collection
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
dc.rights©2022 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyen_US
dc.rightsAccess to this item will begin on 07-08-2025.
dc.subjectlocal educational attainment
dc.subjecthistorical natural experiments
dc.subjecthuman capital sectors
dc.titleHigher Education and Local Educational Attainment: Evidence from the Establishment of U.S. Collegesen_US
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