Investigating the Role of Geography in Economics
Rubinton, Hannah (2022-03-17)
Hannah Rubinton, an economist at the St. Louis Fed, explores how geography might affect one’s college attainment.
On the Economy

Journal Article
City Segregation and the College Degree Gap
Rubinton, Hannah; Isaacson, Maggie (2022-06-23)
For a 0.1 increase in the dissimilarity index, the average racial gap in college attainment increases by 1.64 percentage points.
Economic Synopses , Issue 17 , Pages 1-2

Journal Article
How College Attainment Differs by Birthplace
Rubinton, Hannah; Isaacson, Maggie (2021-01-15)
Data from 1990 and 2018 show the effect birthplace may have on educational attainment, inside and outside the Federal Reserve’s Eighth District.
The Regional Economist , Volume 29 , Issue 1

Report
Implications of Increasing College Attainment for Aging in General Equilibrium
Kehoe, Timothy J.; Nygaard, Vegard; Conesa, Juan Carlos; Raveendranathan, Gajendran (2019-05-08)
We develop and calibrate an overlapping generations general equilibrium model of the U.S. economy with heterogeneous consumers who face idiosyncratic earnings and health risk to study the implications of exogenous trends in increasing college attainment, decreasing fertility, and increasing longevity between 2005 and 2100. While all three trends contribute to a higher old age dependency ratio, increasing college attainment has different macroeconomic implications because it increases labor productivity. Decreasing fertility and increasing longevity require the government to increase the ...
Staff Report , Paper 583