%0 Journal Article
%T Examining the Interstate Mobility of Recent College Graduates
%A Douglas A. Webber
%A Robert Kelchen
%J Educational Researcher
%@ 1935-102X
%D 2018
%R 10.3102/0013189X17753124
%X An increasingly important goal of state policymakers is to keep young, well-educated adults to remain in that state instead of moving elsewhere after college, as evidenced by New York¡¯s recent move to tie state grant aid to staying in state after graduation. We used American Community Survey data from 2005¨C2015 to examine the prevalence of interstate mobility over the past decade as well as provide state-level rates of ¡°brain drain.¡± We found substantial variations in interstate mobility across states, which has important policy implications
%K educational policy
%K higher education
%K postsecondary education
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0013189X17753124