If having an education causes women to enter the workforce more (either in order to pay off college loans or because they feel like they'd be wasting their degr

If having an education causes women to enter the workforce more (either in order to pay off college loans or because they feel like they'd be wasting their degree if they stayed at home), then that could cause the correlation. Total hours per person would be more in the educated states, but hours per worker would be less. But we'd need more data to figure out if this is actually the case. His result: Education seems to play a big role in how long a state’s average resident works, and for what wage. This sentence is false based on the data given. The data in the article was a survey of employers. Thus it only measures how long employed workers work, not residents as a whole. UPDATE: The full study is behind a paywall, but the abstract states a contradictory result from that of Florida's: "ws us to construct a longer time series. We find several interesting patterns. The married women with the largest increase in market hours are those with high-skilled husbands. When we compare households with different skill mixes, we also find dramatic differences in the time paths, with higher skill households having the largest increase in average hours over time." Source: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;jsessionid=24652EBB23490D204ABCB31B1CD8839B?contentType=Book&hdAction=lnkpdf&contentId=1797176 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do;jse...