We examine the causal effect of education on migration using variation in college attainment due to draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War. We use national and state-level induction risk to identify both college attainment and veteran status for men observed in the 1980 Census. 2SLS estimates imply that additional years of college…

Develops the statistical techniques for estimating patterns of geographic movement of selected groups of workers. (BH)

Concludes that low ratios of net to gross migration at higher levels of education are the result of greater regional income equality, due to the efficiency of past migration. (BH)

Real income is used in developing and empirically testing this cost and returns approach to migration theory. (BH)

In this paper the authors analyze the interactive dimensions of geographic and career mobility while at the same time examining the associated implications of these interactions for the age selectivity of migration. (Author/SSH)

A comparison of census data with economic survey figures indicates that poverty among the elderly is increasing, particularly in the Southern rural areas and for blacks, females, and those over age 75. (MF)