SCHOOLING EXTERNALITIES, TECHNOLOGY, AND PRODUCTIVITY: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM US STATES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Iranzo, Susana; Peri, Giovanni
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Davis; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest.91.2.420
• 发表日期: 2009-05
• 页码: 420-431
• 关键词: education; INEQUALITY; gains

摘要

The literature on schooling externalities in U. S. cities and states is rather mixed: positive external effects of average education levels are hardly found while positive externalities from the share of college graduates are more often identified. We propose a simple model to reconcile this mixed evidence. Our model predicts positive externalities from increased college education and negligible external effects from high school education. Using compulsory attendance/child labor laws, push-driven immigration of highly educated workers, and the location of land-grant colleges as instruments for schooling attainments, we test and confirm the model predictions with data on U. S. states for the period 1960-2000.