College-to-Work Migration of Technology Graduates and Holders of Doctorates within the United States

This study estimates a series of random parameter logit models of the college-to-work migration decisions of technology graduates and holders of doctorates within the United States. The study demonstrates the richness of the random parameters technique for behavioral-geographic analysis. They find that science and technology graduates migrate to better educated places, other things equal; that PhD graduates pay greater attention to amenity characteristics than other degree holders; and that foreign students from some immigrant groups migrate to places where those groups are concentrated.