The authors examine the apparent lack of high-skilled workers for the U.S. manufacturing sector by focusing on the educational attainment and wage compensation of manufacturing workers and their nonmanufacturing counterparts over the period 1990–2007.

The authors focus on the relationship between being a college graduate (that is, having a bachelor’s degree or higher) and household location in the city of Chicago’s lakefront neighborhoods, other parts of the city, and the suburbs in Illinois. Overall, their results indicate that being a...

On April 8–9, 2013, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Detroit Branch hosted a two-day conference on the economic impacts of developments in domestic energy production. Recent technological advances in the ability to extract natural gas and other fuels from shale rock are already having...

The revealed residential choice of city versus suburbs within large metropolitan areas is examined with particular focus on families with children, especially those with college-educated parents. Probit and bivariate probit estimates are presented for 15 large metropolitan areas in the United...

Using data on individuals from the 2008 American Community Survey, we examine the relationship between educational attainment and the location of jobs in fifteen large metropolitan areas in the United States. We focus on whether individuals with higher educational attainment tend to work in the...

The revealed residential choice of city versus suburbs within large metropolitan areas is examined with particular focus on families with children, especially those with college-educated parents. Probit and bivariate probit estimates are presented for 15 large metropolitan areas in the United...

Industrial production long was the heartbeat of the Midwest economy. As that industry’s role in the region diminishes, policymakers have explored new directions. At a series of conferences, local experts discussed the potential of the biotech industry as the Midwest’s next frontier.

On April 24–25, 2007, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Detroit Regional Chamber sponsored a two-day forum examining a “value chain” perspective of health care delivery in the U.S. The program discussed how a value chain evaluation might lead to improvement in health care...

A recent Chicago Fed conference looked at the shifting geography of company headquarters, with a public policy focus on headquarters as a much-desired target of economic development efforts.