Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from US States 1950-1990
Ciccone,Antonio; Peri, Giovanni | October 2013
Abstract
We find that over the period 1950–1990, states in United States absorbed
increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and
child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling
intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards more
schooling-intensive industries played a less important role. To try and
understand this finding theoretically, we consider a free trade model with two
goods/industries, two skill types, and many regions that produce a fixed range of
differentiated varieties of the same goods. We find that a calibrated version of
the model can account for shifts in schooling supply being mostly absorbed
through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production even if
the elasticity of substitution between varieties is substantially higher than
estimates in the literature.
Citation
Ciccone,Antonio; Peri, Giovanni. 2013. Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from US States 1950-1990. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/2294. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
1655-5252
Keywords
Quality Education
Technical Education
Primary Education
Educational Systems
Educational Reforms
Industry
Electronics Industry
Commerce and Industry
Development cooperation
Training programs
Vocational training
Training methods
Economic growth
Training courses
Technological institutes
Labor market
Educational aspects
Compulsory education
Economics of education
Educational policy
Industrial Projects
Industrial Products
Industrial Policy
Manufacturing Industries
Industrial Sector
Educational tests and measurements
Comprehensive high schools
College preparation programs
Transnational education
Communication in higher education
Fundamental education
Capitalism and education
Right to education
Educational change
Educational evaluation
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