The fraction of persons holding a college degree differs nearly two-fold across U.S. states. This paper documents data related to state educational attainment differences and explores possible explanations. It shows that highly educated states employ skillbiased technologies, specialize in skill-intensive industries, but do not pay lower skill premia than do less educated states. Moreover, meas...

We document the descriptive statistics and detailed regression outputs for educational attainment and measured 2D:4D ratios, based on the RLMS data (20th round, conducted in 2011-2012). Regression analysis is conducted using STATA 13, gologit2 which is a special code for the generalized ordered logit regression in STATA environment. We provide graphs of differences in means of 2D:4D ratios by e...

ISSN: 0747-4938 (Print) 1532-4168 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/lecr20 Residential Mobility, Neighborhood Effects, and Educational Attainment of Blacks and Whites Yan Dong , Li Gan & Yingning Wang To cite this article: Yan Dong , Li Gan & Yingning Wang (2015) Residential Mobility, Neighborhood Effects, and Educational Attainment of Blacks and Whites, Econometric Revi...

Factors thought to be related to lung cancer include smoking, radon, and educational attainment. These factors were analyzed in the present ecological study for Oregon with correlation and linear regression statistics. A moderate, inverse, and statistically significant correlation was found with educational attainment while surprisingly, negligible and statistically insignificant correlations w...