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100	1		_aGoldin, Claudia. _911534
245	1	0	_aHow America Graduated from High School: _b1910 to 1960 / _cClaudia Goldin.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c1994.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations (black and white);
490	1		_aNBER working paper series _vno. w4762
500			_aJune 1994.
520	3		_aHuman capital accumulation and technological change were to the twentieth century what physical capital accumulation was to the nineteenth century -- the engine of growth. The accumulation of human capital accounts for almost 60% of all capital formation and 28% of the per capita growth residual from 1929 to 1982. Advances in secondary schooling account for about 70% of the increase in total educational attainment from 1930 to 1970 for men 40 to 44 years old. High school, not college, was responsible for the enormous increase in the human capital stock during much of this century. In this paper I answer when and where high schools advanced in the 1910 to 1960 period. The most rapid expansion in the non-South regions occurred in the brief period from 1920 to 1935. The 1920s provided the initial burst in high school attendance, but the Great Depression added significantly to high school enrollment and graduation rates. Attendance rates were highest in states, regions, and cities with the least reliance on manufacturing and in areas where agricultural income per worker was high. Schooling was particularly low where certain industries that hired youths were dominant and where the foreign born had entered in large numbers before the immigration restriction of the 1920s. More education enabled states to converge to a higher level of per capita income between 1929 and 1947, and states rich in agricultural resources, yet poor in manufacturing, exported educated workers in later decades.
530			_aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
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538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588	0		_aPrint version record
690		7	_aJ24 - Human Capital • Skills • Occupational Choice • Labor Productivity _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690		7	_aI20 - General _2Journal of Economic Literature class.
710	2		_aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830		0	_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w4762.
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w4762
856			_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w4762
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