经济与社会研究院SEMINAR第4期

Understanding U.S. college graduate migration

报告人：Heather M. Stephens

时间：2016年5月31日上午9：30-11：30

地点：暨南大学经济学院楼102室

报告人简介：

Heather Stephens博士是美国西弗吉尼亚大学（West Virginia University）资源经济与管理系助理教授，Regional Studies, Regional Science共同主编，她的研究领域为区域发展与政策，她对创业、税收、能源价格和发展、环境质量等相关问题做了大量研究，相关成果发表在Journal of Regional Science, Growth and Change, International Regional Science Review, Small Business Economics以及Environmental and Resource Economics等期刊上。她在杜克大学获得经济学和公共政策学士，在俄亥俄州立大学获得工商管理硕士学位和经济学博士学位，曾在加州大学长滩分校担任经济学助理教授。

Abstract

Previous research has shown that understanding the migration habits of college graduates is important because there is evidence of a link between human capital, proxied by an educated workforce, and growth. For U.S. regions that were hard hit by the recession and the ongoing restructuring of the economy, finding and attracting educated workers will be important to their long term recovery. However, while a number of papers have investigated the motivations for migration by college graduates in other countries or between U.S. states, few studies have examined U.S. college graduate migration at the regional level.  To understand the post-graduation location decisions of recent U.S. college graduates, we surveyed graduates of California State University, Long Beach, a large, state-supported university in the nation’s second largest metropolitan area, a region which has been hard hit by the recession. Using multinomial logit, we modeled their choice of location post-graduation. Preliminary results suggest that amenities play a strong role in where they choose to locate and that being more connected to the local area while enrolled in school can help retain students post-graduation.