01027nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100002400041245008800065260003200153300003000185520067000215773003200885210129b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aHershbein, B. et al  aCollege attainment, Income inequality, and economic security: A simulation exercise  aAEA Papers and Proceedings   a110, May, 2020: p.352-355  aWe conduct an empirical simulation exercise that gauges the plausible impact of increased rates of college attainment on a variety of measures of income inequality and economic insecurity. Using two different methodological approaches⁠—a distributional approach and a causal parameter approach⁠—we find that increased rates of BA and AA attainment would meaningfully increase economic security for lower income individuals and shrink gaps between the 90th percentile and lower percentiles. Increases in college attainment would not significantly reduce inequality at the very top of the distribution, as measured by the 99/90 earnings ratio. – Reproduced   aAEA Papers and Proceedings