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. …

Formal education is widely thought to be a major determinant of individual earnings. This paper uses the American … Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education …