THE GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF HUMAN CAPITAL: MEASUREMENT OF CONTRIBUTING MECHANISMS
利用美国数据，将地方人力资本（大学学历比例）的代际变化分解为上一代人力资本、父母向子女的技能传递和子女迁移三个因素，发现通勤区层面技能水平显著持续，且技能通过代际传递从城市流向农村，通过迁移从农村流向城市。
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how the geographic distribution of human capital—measured as college attainment—evolves over time. With U.S. data, I decompose generation‐to‐generation changes in local human capital into three factors: the previous generation's human capital, intergenerational transmission of skills from parents to their children, and migration of the children. I find significant persistence of local skills at the commuting zone (local labor market) level. Labor market size, climate, and local colleges affect local skill measures. Skills move from urban‐to‐rural labor markets through intergenerational transmission but from rural‐to‐urban labor markets through migration.