Paying to Program? Engineering Brand and High-Tech Wages

We have greatly benefited from feedback from April Franco, Brad Greenwood, Damien Joseph, Boyan Jovanavic, Chris Kemerer, Paul Osterman, Amanda Pallais, and Michael Roach as well as seminar participants at the American Economic Association, the Academy of Management, the American Sociological Association, the Wharton People and Organizations Conference, the University of Minnesota, Temple University, the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Purdue University, the Workshop for Information Systems and Economics, New York University, the University of Washington, the Georgia Tech Sandra Slaughter Software Conference, the University of Illinois-Chicago, the NYU CIRI Seminar series, Arizona State University, Harvard Business School, the Federal Reserve Board, the Wharton School of Business, Michigan State University, and the University of Pittsburgh. We are also grateful to Andrew Chamberlain and Glassdoor for providing access to their data. Prasanna Tambe is grateful to the Alfred P. Sloan foundation for financial assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.