The Geography of Human Capital: Why Rich Regions Stay Rich
Podcast: The Pie: An Economics PodcastPublished On: Tue Mar 17 2026
Description: People in the Netherlands average nearly 11 years of schooling, compared to about 2.5 for those in the Central African Republic. Why don't these gaps close? In this episode, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg of the University of Chicago explains recent research that divides the entire globe into more than 16,000 grid cells to study the costs of acquiring human capital, and how these valuable skills drive economic development.
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