suggest that the local human capital level has positive externalities on the probability of labor force participation and …. -- employment ; labor force participation ; human capital externalities ; agglomeration …

availability has thus far prevented researchers from directly connecting STEM education to human capital externalities. This paper …Previous research suggests that the local stock of human capital creates positive externalities within local labor … positive wage externalities, but STEM graduates create much larger externalities. …

responses to education and find evidence for substantial heterogeneity in unobserved variables on which agents make choices. The … estimated treatment effects of education are decomposed into the direct benefits of attaining a given level of schooling and … estimated treatment effects. While the estimated causal effects of education are substantial for most outcomes, we also estimate …

This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in … differentials. For some, there are substantial causal effects of education at all stages of schooling. …