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Title: Essays on Education and Labor Market
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1. Ishimaru, Shoya
Essays on Education and Labor Market
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2020
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
Keyword(s): College Education; Educational Outcomes; Geocoded Data; Labor Market Outcomes; Local Area Unemployment

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The first chapter examines the importance of college and labor market options associated with childhood location in shaping educational and labor market outcomes experienced by a person later in life. I estimate a dynamic model that considers post-high school choices of whether and where to attend college and where to work, subject to home preferences, mobility costs, and spatial search frictions. The estimated model suggests that spatial gaps in local college and labor market options in the United States give rise to a 6 percentage point gap in the college attendance rate and an 11% gap in the wage rate at 10 years of experience between the 90th and 10th percentiles of across-county variation in each outcome.
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Ishimaru, Shoya. Essays on Education and Labor Market. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2020.