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Title: Essays on Human Capital, Geography, and the Family
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Anstreicher, Garrett |
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Essays on Human Capital, Geography, and the Family Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2023 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): American Community Survey; Human Capital; Migration; Mobility, Economic; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); School Quality Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The first chapter extends a canonical model of intergenerational human capital investment to a geographic context in order to study the role of migration in determining optimal human capital accumulation and income mobility in the United States. The main result is that migration is considerably influential in shaping the high rates of economic mobility observed among children from low-wage areas, with human capital investment behavioral responses being important to consider. Equalizing school quality across locations does more to reduce interstate inequality in income mobility than equalizing skill prices, and policies that attempt to decrease human capital flight from low-wage areas via cash transfers are unlikely to be cost-effective. |
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Anstreicher, Garrett. Essays on Human Capital, Geography, and the Family. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2023. |