Do higher college graduation rates increase local education levels?

Winters, John V.

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“…His results indicate that higher education enrollment is a major driver of inmigration to these cities, many of whom are major hubs of higher education, and that many of those who attend college in one of these "smart" cities stay. This is consistent with the findings by Gottlieb and Joseph (2006) that college graduates have a tendency to stay in the location where they earned their college degree and those by Groen (2004), Groen andWhite (2004), andWinters (2018) that people are more likely to live in a state if they attend college there. However, attracting students to a region does not guarantee success (Hansen et al 2003), and producing a lot of college graduates does not necessarily lead to a large supply, as graduates can leave (Bound et al 2004).…”

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“…Additionally, amenities may not vary much within a region and factors such as infrastructure, housing availability and affordability, and transportation costs may play a role in the location decision within regions (Aamoucke 2016;Greenlee and Wilson 2016). Given that the more recent literature finds that, overall, migration has declined in the USA (Partridge et al 2012) and that more recent college graduates are less likely to leave their home state (Winters 2018), understanding migration within a region may be especially important.…”

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Understanding US college graduate migration

Stephens

2019

J Geogr Syst

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Previous research has shown that understanding the migration habits of college graduates is important because there is evidence of a link between human capital, proxied by an educated workforce, and economic growth. While a number of papers have investigated the motivations for migration by college graduates in other countries or between US regions, few studies have examined US college graduate migration at the regional level or used individual-level data. To help understand the postgraduation location decisions of recent US college graduates, we surveyed graduates of California State University, Long Beach, a large, state-supported university in the nation's second-largest metropolitan area. Long Beach, despite being the home to this large university, lags the region in numbers of college-educated residents. The region has also experienced substantial economic restructuring. The results suggest that amenities play a strong role in where graduates choose to locate and that cities should do more to build connections with students in order to retain their talents post-graduation.

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Understanding US college graduate migration

Stephens

2019

J Geogr Syst

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“…A similar change in secondary enrolment however produces a 0.42 percent change in growth whereas primary enrolment relatedly registers a lower impact of 0.29 percent, where in the former case, the 0.42 percentage point increase in per capita growth due to secondary is without controls for the effects from primary and higher education enrolments. As found by [40] [41] [42] [43] [73], higher levels of education tends to generate higher growth rates more than the lower ones. In terms of magnitude, the greatest contribution to growth therefore is observed for secondary school investment followed by primary and tertiary educational expansion in order of importance.…”

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Estimation of Disaggregated Impacts of Education Expansion on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nnyanzi¹,

Kilimani²

2018

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Underpinned by evidence from the theories of endogenous growth which stress the role of human capital accumulation in enhancing growth, this paper investigates the disaggregated impact of school enrolment on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for the period 1995-2016. The analysis is based on the augmented Solow, and Mankiw models and employs the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) technique that takes care of endogeneity in a dynamic panel environment. The results point to a significant but differential impact of educational expansion in facilitating economic performance in the SSA region. Essentially, the growth enhancing impact of education depends on the type of education with secondary education yielding the largest impacts. The gender disaggregated model results show that and secondary school and primary enrolment yield higher growth effects relative to tertiary enrolment. Most interestingly and contrary to existing literature on the gender disaggregated impact of education on growth, the education of girls is seen to yield higher growth effects relative to boys. Based on evidence of the positive impact of girl-child education, policy interventions to support and sustain girl child education in Sub-Saharan Africa ought to be encouraged.

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“…Early education is compulsory, and the great majority of young people in the U.S. complete education through high school. However, only about one-third of young people complete a bachelor's degree or higher education (Winters 2018). Many more begin college but leave without earning a degree.…”

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Problem on the Plains: College Earnings Premiums in Small Metropolitan Areas

Winters

2020

SSRN Journal

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I use the American Community Survey to examine how college earnings premiums differ across small metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the U.S. I document that the West North Central Division (Plains Region) has especially low average college earnings premiums. Controlling for observable MSA characteristics via regression explains some of the difference between the Plains and other regions, but large and important differences remain. The low return to education for small MSAs in the Plains suggests that they will face special challenges building and retaining human capital in the near future. These areas may especially struggle to attract college-educated in-migrants.

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Do higher college graduation rates increase local education levels?

Cited by 11 publications

References 83 publications

Understanding US college graduate migration

Understanding US college graduate migration

Estimation of Disaggregated Impacts of Education Expansion on Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Problem on the Plains: College Earnings Premiums in Small Metropolitan Areas

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