Estimating Human Capital Spill-Over in the UK: Evidence from Understanding Society

Veronica Toffolutti , Queen Mary University of London
Franco Sassi, Centre for Health Economics & Policy Innovation, Department of Economics & Public Policy, Imperial College London
Daniela Fecht, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, St Mary's Campus, Imperial College London

This paper examines whether the average level of human capital in a region affects the earnings of an individual residing in that region, net to the individual’s own human capital. To this end we used data from Understanding Society, panel data across 11 British regions for the period 2009 to 2020. Our results suggest that there is no statistically significant effect of area-average educational attainment on area-level gross annual earnings.

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 Presented in Session 81. Human Capital Transmissions