TY  - JOUR
AU  - Berry,Christopher R.
AU  - Glaeser,Edward L.
TI  - The Divergence of Human Capital Levels Across Cities
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11617
PY  - 2005
Y2  - September 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11617
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11617.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Christopher Berry
Harris School of Public Policy
University of Chicago
1155 E. 60th Street, Suite 179
Chicago, IL 60637
E-Mail: crberry@uchicago.edu

Edward L. Glaeser
Department of Economics
315A Littauer Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-0575
Fax: 617/495-7730
E-Mail: eglaeser@harvard.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2005-09-19
AB  - Over the past 30 years, the share of adult populations with college degrees increased more in cities with higher initial schooling levels than in initially less educated places. This tendency appears to be driven by shifts in labor demand as there is an increasing wage premium for skilled people working in skilled cities. In this paper, we present a model where the clustering of skilled people in metropolitan areas is driven by the tendency of skilled entrepreneurs to innovate in ways that employ other skilled people and by the elasticity of housing supply.
ER  -