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American Economic Review: Vol. 96 No. 4 (September 2006)
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Higher-Education Policies and the College Wage Premium: Cross-State Evidence from the 1990s
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Fortin, Nicole M. 2006. "Higher-Education Policies and the College Wage Premium: Cross-State Evidence from the 1990s."
American Economic Review,
96(4): 959-987.
DOI: 10.1257/aer.96.4.959
DOI: 10.1257/aer.96.4.959
Abstract
Exploiting differences across U.S. states, this paper demonstrates that there is a
tight link between higher education policies, past enrollment rates, and recent
changes in the college wage premium among labor market entrants. The analysis
reveals, however, that this relationship is much weaker in states with high private
enrollment rates, high levels of interstate mobility, or interstate trade. The withinstate
estimates of the own-cohort relative supply effect shed some light on the extent
to which the U.S. labor market can be characterized as a single national market or
a collection of state-specific labor markets. (JEL I21, I28, J22, J24, J31, R23)
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