NBER Papers in Labor Studies

NBER Papers in Labor Studies

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2008
w14007 Anne Case
Christina Paxson
Mahnaz Islam

Making Sense of the Labor Market Height Premium: Evidence From the British Household Panel Survey

w14006 Jeffrey S. DeSimone
The Impact of Employment during School on College Student Academic Performance

w14005 David Galenson
The Globalization of Advanced Art in the Twentieth Century

w14003 Petra Moser
An Empirical Test of Taste-based Discrimination Changes in Ethnic Preferences and their Effect on Admissions to the NYSE during World War I

w13996 Mirko Draca
Stephen Machin
John Van Reenen

Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability

w13993 Jonathan Guryan
Erik Hurst
Melissa Schettini Kearney

Parental Education and Parental Time With Children

w13987 Janet Currie
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development

w13986 Pierpaolo Benigno
Luca Antonio Ricci

The Inflation-Unemployment Trade-Off at Low Inflation

w13985 Valerie A. Ramey
Time Spent in Home Production in the 20th Century: New Estimates from Old Data

w13982 Robert J. Gordon
Ian Dew-Becker

Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality: A Survey

w13972 David G. Blanchflower
Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs

w13971 Emily Oster
Gang Chen

Hepatitis B Does Not Explain Male-Biased Sex Ratios in China

w13969 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

Too Young to Leave the Nest: The Effects of School Starting Age

w13967 Raj Chetty
Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

w13961 Armin Falk
David Huffman
W. Bentley MacLeod

Institutions and Contract Enforcement

w13960 Surajeet Chakravarty
W. Bentley MacLeod

Contracting in the Shadow of the Law

w13953 Martin S. Feldstein
Did Wages Reflect Growth in Productivity?

w13951 Peter Arcidiacono
Patrick Bayer
Aurel Hizmo

Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability

w13949 Patrick Bayer
Shakeeb Khan
Christopher Timmins

Nonparametric Identification and Estimation in a Generalized Roy Model

w13941 Jeff Larrimore
Richard V. Burkhauser
Shuaizhang Feng
Laura Zayatz

Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007)

w13939 David W. Galenson
Portraits of the Artist: Personal Visual Art in the Twentieth Century

w13935 Keith Finlay
Effect of Employer Access to Criminal History Data on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ex-Offenders and Non-Offenders

w13934 James J. Heckman
Econometric Causality

w13931 Orazio Attanasio
Adriana Kugler
Costas Meghir

Training Disadvantaged Youth in Latin America: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

w13928 Keith Finlay
David Neumark

Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration

w13926 Marianne Bertrand
Rema Hanna
Sendhil Mullainathan

Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence From Engineering College Admissions in India

w13924 Aleksander Berentsen
Guido Menzio
Randall Wright

Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run

w13923 Muriel Niederle
Carmit Segal
Lise Vesterlund

How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness

w13922 Muriel Niederle
Alexandra H. Yestrumskas

Gender Differences in Seeking Challenges: The Role of Institutions

w13920 John Haltiwanger
Stefano Scarpetta
Helena Schweiger

Assessing Job Flows Across Countries: The Role of Industry, Firm Size and Regulations

w13912 Lance J. Lochner
Alexander Monge-Naranjo

The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital

w13905 Raj Arunachalam
Trevon Logan

Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?

w13893 Mark Aguiar
Erik Hurst

Deconstructing Lifecycle Expenditure

w13890 Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Marianne Bertrand
Leigh L. Linden
Francisco Perez-Calle

Conditional Cash Transfers in Education Design Features, Peer and Sibling Effects Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia

w13887 George J. Borjas
Jeffrey Grogger
Gordon H. Hanson

Imperfect Substitution between Immigrants and Natives: A Reappraisal

w13886 Betsey Stevenson
The Internet and Job Search

w13850 Richard B. Freeman
M. Marit Rehavi

Helping Workers Online and Offline: Innovations in Union and Worker Organization Using the Internet

w13883 Joseph G. Altonji
Prashant Bharadwaj
Fabian Lange

Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes

w13880 Peter Blair Henry
Diego Sasson

Capital Account Liberalization, Real Wages, and Productivity

w13879 Sherry Glied
Matthew Neidell

The Economic Value of Teeth

w13877 Douglas Almond
Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.

After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stays

w13868 Jonah E. Rockoff
Does Mentoring Reduce Turnover and Improve Skills of New Employees? Evidence from Teachers in New York City

w13867 Melissa Bjelland
Bruce Fallick
John Haltiwanger
Erika McEntarfer

Employer-to-Employer Flows in the United States: Estimates Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

w13855 Adriana Kugler
Maurice Kugler

Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombia

w13851 Francesco D'Amuri
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano
Giovanni Peri

The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's

w13845 David Galenson
Language in Visual Art: The Twentieth Century

w13844 Raj Chetty
Is the Taxable Income Elasticity Sufficient to Calculate Deadweight Loss? The Implications of Evasion and Avoidance

w13843 Michael Kvasnicka
Does Temporary Help Work Provide a Stepping Stone to Regular Employment?

w13840 Ian Dew-Becker
Robert J. Gordon

The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth

w13838 Erica M. Field
Omar Robles
Máximo Torero

The Cognitive Link Between Geography and Development: Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania

w13837 Mark Aguiar
Erik Hurst

The Increase in Leisure Inequality

w13833 Michael Greenstone
Richard Hornbeck
Enrico Moretti

Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Million Dollar Plants

w13832 Enrico Moretti
Social Learning and Peer Effects in Consumption: Evidence from Movie Sales

w13826 Michael Baker
Kevin Milligan

Evidence From Maternity Leave Expansions of the Impact of Maternal Care on Early Child Development

w13821 Jeffrey Grogger
Gordon H. Hanson

Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants

w13818 David Neumark
Brandon Wall
Junfu Zhang

Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series

w13813 Leah Platt Boustan
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940-1970

w13810 Lex Borghans
Angela Lee Duckworth
James J. Heckman
Bas ter Weel

The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

w13793 Christopher Ruebeck
Susan Averett
Howard Bodenhorn

Acting White or Acting Black: Mixed-Race Adolescents' Identity and Behavior

w13789 Erik Hurst
The Retirement of a Consumption Puzzle

w13773 Anna Aizer
Neighborhood Violence and Urban Youth

w13785 Radha Iyengar
Lindsay Sabik
Cindy Southworth
Sarah Tucker
Cynthia Fraser

50,000 People a Day: The Use of Federally Funded Services for Intimate Partner Violence

w13784 Radha Iyengar
I'd rather be Hanged for a Sheep than a Lamb: The Unintended Consequences of 'Three-Strikes' Laws

w13780 James J. Heckman
Lance J. Lochner
Petra E. Todd

Earnings Functions and Rates of Return

w13777 Michael W. L. Elsby
Ryan Michaels

Marginal Jobs, Heterogeneous Firms, & Unemployment Flows

w13776 Emma Hall
Carol Propper
John Van Reenen

Can pay regulation kill? Panel data evidence on the effect of labor markets on hospital performance

w13772 Fernando Alvarez
Robert Shimer

Search and Rest Unemployment

w13766 Michael Ostrovsky
Michael Schwarz

Information Disclosure and Unraveling in Matching Markets

w13758 Jonathan Gruber
Covering the Uninsured in the U.S.

w13755 Julio J. Rotemberg
Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model

w13744 David Galenson
The Rise and (Partial) Fall of Abstract Painting in the Twentieth Century

w13743 Henry Saffer
Karine Lamiraud

The Effect of Hours of Work on Social Interaction

w13732 Efraim Benmelech
Eugene Kandel
Pietro Veronesi

Stock-Based Compensation and CEO (Dis)Incentives

w13727 Uri Gneezy
Kenneth L. Leonard
John A. List

Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society

w13726 Julia Coronado
Olivia S. Mitchell
Steven A. Sharpe
S. Blake Nesbitt

Footnotes Aren't Enough: The Impact of Pension Accounting on Stock Values

w13725 Eli Berman
David D. Laitin

Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model

w13722 Mary F. Evans
V. Kerry Smith

Complementarity and the Measurement of Individual Risk Tradeoffs: Accounting for Quantity and Quality of Life Effects

w13719 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Klara Sabirianova Peter

Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia

w13718 Gordon Dahl
Stefano DellaVigna

Does Movie Violence Increase Violent Crime?

w13717 Kaivan Munshi
Nicholas Wilson

Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice: Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest


2007
w13707 Matthias Doepke
Moshe Hazan
Yishay Maoz

The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

w13701 Lucian A. Bebchuk
Martijn Cremers
Urs Peyer

CEO Centrality

w13700 Alma Cohen
Rajeev Dehejia
Dmitri Romanov

Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?

w13699 Young Han Lee
Ulrike Malmendier

The Bidder's Curse

w13697 Wen-Jui Han
Christopher Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel

Parental Leave Policies and Parents' Employment and Leave-Taking

w13695 Woong Lee
Private Deception and the Rise of Public Employment Offices in the United States, 1890 - 1930

w13693 Todd Sinai
Nicholas S. Souleles

Net Worth and Housing Equity in Retirement

w13686 Jan Eeckhout
Boyan Jovanovic

Occupational Choice and Development

w13684 Morris M. Kleiner
Richard M. Todd

Mortgage Broker Regulations That Matter: Analyzing Earnings, Employment, and Outcomes for Consumers

w13675 Gordon H. Hanson
Craig McIntosh

The Great Mexican Emigration

w13667 Rebecca M. Blank
Kerwin Kofi Charles
James M. Sallee

Do State Laws Affect the Age of Marriage? A Cautionary Tale About Avoidance Behavior

w13661 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Jonathan Guryan

Prejudice and The Economics of Discrimination

w13654 Edward P. Lazear
Kathryn L. Shaw

Wage Structure, Raises and Mobility: International Comparisons of the Structure of Wages Within and Across Firms

w13653 Edward P. Lazear
Kathryn L. Shaw

Personnel Economics: The Economist's View of Human Resources

w13652 Kathryn Shaw
Edward P. Lazear

Tenure and Output

w13651 Ann Bartel
Casey Ichniowski
Kathryn Shaw
Ricardo Correa

International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New HR Practices: The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. and U.K.

w13638 Alberto Alesina
Andrea Ichino
Loukas Karabarbounis

Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores

w13633 Boris Groysberg
Ashish Nanda
M. Julia Prats

Does Individual Performance Affect Entrepreneurial Mobility? Empirical Evidence from the Financial Analysis Market

w13631 Susana Iranzo
Giovanni Peri

Migration and Trade in a World of Technological Differences: Theory with an Application to Eastern-Western European Integration

w13630 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Michael Moore

A Theory of Retirement

w13621 Manuel F. Bagues
Mauro Sylos Labini

Do On-Line Labor Market Intermediaries Matter? The Impact of AlmaLaurea on the University-to-Work Transition

w13610 Emily Oster
Routes of Infection: Exports and HIV Incidence in Sub-Saharan Africa

w13609 John Cawley
Feng Liu

Mechanisms for the Association Between Maternal Employment and Child Cognitive Development

w13669 George J. Borjas
Labor Outflows and Labor Inflows in Puerto Rico

w13668 David Card
Carlos Dobkin
Nicole Maestas

Does Medicare Save Lives?

w13665 Christopher A. Parsons
Johan Sulaeman
Michael C. Yates
Daniel S. Hamermesh

Strike Three: Umpires' Demand for Discrimination

w13657 John Bound
Todd Stinebrickner
Timothy Waidmann

Health, Economic Resources and the Work Decisions of Older Men

w13600 John Cawley
Feng Liu

Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A Search for Mechanisms in Time Use Data

w13599 W. Kip Viscusi
Joni Hersch

The Mortality Cost to Smokers

w13598 Edith Sand
Assaf Razin

The Political-Economy Positive Role of the Social Security System in Sustaining Immigration (But Not Vice Versa)

w13595 Roy Wada
Erdal Tekin

Body Composition and Wages

w13594 Raymond B. Palmquist
Daniel J. Phaneuf
V. Kerry Smith

Measuring the Values for Time

w13589 Joseph Kaboski
Trevon D. Logan

Factor Endowments and the Returns to Skill: New Evidence from the American Past

w13583 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Günther Fink
Jocelyn E. Finlay

Fertility, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Demographic Dividend

w13582 Rene Boeheim
Ana Rute Cardoso

Temporary Help Services Employment in Portugal, 1995-2000

w13576 Carolyn Moehling
Anne Morrison Piehl

Immigration and Crime in Early 20th Century America

w13570 Ulrike Malmendier
Geoffrey Tate
Jonathan Yan

Corporate Financial Policies With Overconfident Managers

w13568 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

Long-Run Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure: Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing

w13543 Leah Platt Boustan
Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration

w13539 David Cutler
Winnie Fung
Michael Kremer
Monica Singhal

Mosquitoes: The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India

w13536 Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
James Banks

Labor Market Status and Transitions during the Pre-Retirement Years: Learning from International Differences

w13533 Ernesto F. L. Amaral
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Joseph E. Potter
Eduardo L.G. Rios-Neto

Demographic Change and the Structure of Wages: A Demand-Theoretic Analysis for Brazil

w13530 Alvin E. Roth
What Have We Learned From Market Design?

w13529 Muriel Niederle
Alvin E. Roth

The Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices

w13528 Katherine Baicker
Helen Levy

Employer Health Insurance Mandates and the Risk of Unemployment

w13527 Philippe Belley
Lance Lochner

The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in Determining Educational Achievement

w13523 Thomas Lemieux
The Changing Nature of Wage Inequality

w13520 Carolyn J. Heinrich
Peter R. Mueser
Kenneth R. Troske

The Role of Temporary Help Employment in Low-wage Worker Advancement

w13516 Hongbin Cai
Yuyu Chen
Hanming Fang

Observational Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment

w13514 Brian Jacob
Lars Lefgren

The Effect of Grade Retention on High School Completion

w13506 David G. Blanchflower
Chris Shadforth

Fear, Unemployment and Migration

w13505 David G. Blanchflower
Is Unemployment More Costly Than Inflation?

w13503 Edgar Cudmore
John Piggott
John Whalley

Income Tax Design and the Desirability of Subsidies to Secondary Workers in a Household Model with Joint and Non-Joint Time

w13494 Anna Aizer
Wages, Violence and Health in the Household

w13493 Jonathan C. Javitt
James B. Rebitzer
Lonny Reisman

Information Technology and Medical Missteps: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

w13492 Anna Aizer
Pedro Dal Bó

Love, Hate and Murder: Commitment Devices in Violent Relationships

w13485 Jeffrey Grogger
Lynn Karoly

The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being: A Review

w13484 David Galenson
Co-Authoring Advanced Art

w13480 Edward P. Lazear
Paul Oyer

Personnel Economics

w13479 Patricia M. Anderson
Kristin F. Butcher
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Childhood Disadvantage and Obesity: Is Nurture Trumping Nature?

w13465 Erhan Artuc
Shubham Chaudhuri
John McLaren

Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment: A Structural Empirical Approach

w13464 Shubham Chaudhuri
John McLaren

Some Simple Analytics of Trade and Labor Mobility

w13463 Stephen Cameron
Shubham Chaudhuri
John McLaren

Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment: Theory

w13462 Leah Platt Boustan
Robert A. Margo

Why Did Ghettos "Go Bad"? Evidence from the US Postal Service

w13458 Michael Greenstone
Is the "Surge" Working? Some New Facts

w13456 Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Richard T. Holden

Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans

w13413 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption

w13443 Julie Berry Cullen
Brian A. Jacob

Is Gaining Access to Selective Elementary Schools Gaining Ground? Evidence From Randomized Lotteries

w13442 Cally Ardington
Anne Case
Victoria Hosegood

Labor Supply Responses to Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa

w13437 Thomas Philippon
Ariell Reshef

Skill Biased Financial Development: Education, Wages and Occupations in the U.S. Financial Sector

w13436 Melissa S. Kearney
Phillip B. Levine

Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Early Childbearing

w13434 Fredrik Andersson
Harry J. Holzer
Julia Lane

Temporary Help Agencies and the Advancement Prospects of Low Earners

w13422 Jonathan Guryan
Kory Kroft
Matt Notowidigdo

Peer Effects in the Workplace: Evidence from Random Groupings in Professional Golf Tournaments

w13421 Robert Shimer
Reassessing the Ins and Outs of Unemployment

w13420 Stefano DellaVigna
Psychology and Economics: Evidence from the Field

w13417 Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Steven D. Levitt

Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan

w13411 Joshua D. Angrist
Stacey H. Chen

Long-term consequences of vietnam-era conscription: schooling, experience, and earnings

w13402 Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat
Daniel M. Hungerman

The Power of the Pill for the Next Generation

w13396 Till Bärnighausen
David E. Bloom

"Conditional scholarships" for HIV/AIDS Health Workers: Educating and Retaining the Workforce to Provide Antiretroviral Treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa

w13394 Fatih Guvenen
An Empirical Investigation of Labor Income Processes

w13392 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Erik Hurst
Nikolai Roussanov

Conspicuous Consumption and Race

w13389 Giovanni Peri
Chad Sparber

Task Specialization, Comparative Advantages, and the Effects of Immigration on Wages

w13380 Ilyana Kuziemko
Going Off Parole: How the Elimination of Discretionary Prison Release Affects the Social Cost of Crime

w13379 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

Imperfect Knowledge of Pension Plan Type

w13377 David Galenson
Artists and the Market: From Leonardo and Titian to Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst

w13375 Hanming Fang
Dan Silverman

Time-Inconsistency and Welfare Program Participation: Evidence from the NLSY

w13373 Raquel Fernandez
Culture as Learning: The Evolution of Female Labor Force Participation over a Century

w13371 Hanming Fang
Alessandro Gavazza

Dynamic Inefficiencies in Employment-Based Health Insurance System Theory and Evidence

w13369 Rajeev Dehejia
Thomas DeLeire
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Joshua Mitchell

The Role of Religious and Social Organizations in the Lives of Disadvantaged Youth

w13330 Raj Chetty
Adam Looney
Kory Kroft

Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence

w13356 Raegen T. Miller
Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett

Do Teacher Absences Impact Student Achievement? Longitudinal Evidence from One Urban School District

w13355 Stefano DellaVigna
Eliana La Ferrara

Detecting Illegal Arms Trade

w13352 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation under Automatic Enrollment

w13351 Giulia Faggio
Kjell Salvanes
John Van Reenen

The Evolution of Inequality in Productivity and Wages: Panel Data Evidence

w13347 Douglas Almond
Lena Edlund
Mårten Palme

Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden

w13345 Wojciech Kopczuk
Emmanuel Saez
Jae Song

Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937

w13344 Josef Fersterer
Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

w13342 Braz Camargo
Todd Stinebrickner
Ralph Stinebrickner

Evidence about the Potential Role for Affirmative Action in Higher Education

w13338 Rachel Griffith
Sokbae Lee
John Van Reenen

Is Distance Dying at Last? Falling Home Bias in Fixed Effects Models of Patent Citations

w13336 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

Small Family, Smart Family? Family Size and the IQ Scores of Young Men

w13327 Peter Cappelli
Monika Hamori

Are Franchises Bad Employers?

w13309 Daniel J. Benjamin
James J. Choi
A. Joshua Strickland

Social Identity and Preferences

w13308 David Galenson
From "White Christmas" to Sgt. Pepper: The Conceptual Revolution in Popular Music

w13306 Johannes Van Biesebroeck
Wage and Productivity Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa

w13305 Robert Jensen
Emily Oster

The Power of TV: Cable Television and Women's Status in India

w13298 Tae Okada
Charles Yuji Horioka

A Comment on Nishimura, Nakajima, and Kiyota's "Does the natural selection mechanism still work in severe recessions? Examination of the Japanese economy in the 1990s"

w13296 Bronwyn H. Hall
Francesca Lotti
Jacques Mairesse

Employment, Innovation, and Productivity: Evidence from Italian Microdata

w13293 Derek Neal
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Left Behind By Design: Proficiency Counts and Test-Based Accountability

w13292 Victor Lavy
Analía Schlosser

Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School

w13276 Leah Platt Boustan
Price V. Fishback
Shawn E. Kantor

The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities During the Great Depression

w13275 David Card
Michael Ransom

Pension Plan Characteristics and Framing Effects in Employee Savings Behavior

w13270 Steven N. Kaplan
Joshua Rauh

Wall Street and Main Street: What Contributes to the Rise in the Highest Incomes?

w13258 Orley Ashenfelter
Stephen Ciccarella
Howard J. Shatz

French Wine and the U.S. Boycott of 2003: Does Politics Really Affect Commerce?

w13247 Nava Ashraf
James Berry
Jesse M. Shapiro

Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia

t0339 Sergio Firpo
Nicole M. Fortin
Thomas Lemieux

Unconditional Quantile Regressions

w13242 Richard B. Freeman
Labor Market Institutions Around the World

w13237 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

Older and Wiser? Birth Order and IQ of Young Men

w13233 Richard B. Freeman
Douglas Kruse
Joseph Blasi

The Same Yet Different: Worker Reports on Labour Practices and Outcomes in a Single Firm Across Countries

w13230 Christine Jolls
Employment Law and the Labor Market

w13229 Kristin F. Butcher
Anne Morrison Piehl

Why are Immigrants' Incarceration Rates so Low? Evidence on Selective Immigration, Deterrence, and Deportation

w13213 Christopher Avery
Christine Jolls
Richard Posner
Alvin E. Roth

The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks

w13227 Olivier Deschenes
Enrico Moretti

Extreme Weather Events, Mortality and Migration

w13226 Steven J. Davis
John Haltiwanger
Ron S. Jarmin
C. J. Krizan
Javier Miranda
Alfred Nucci
Kristin Sandusky

Measuring the Dynamics of Young and Small Businesses: Integrating the Employer and Nonemployer Universes

w13225 Alvin E. Roth
Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and Open Questions

w13221 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Guenther Fink
Jocelyn E. Finlay

Does Age Structure Forecast Economic Growth?

w13217 Janet Currie
Mark Stabile

Mental Health in Childhood and Human Capital

w13212 Thomas J. Holmes
Michael Walrath

Dynamics of Union Organizations: A Look at Gross Flows in the LORS Files

w13210 Lex Borghans
Ben Kriechel

Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003

w13206 Joseph Price
Justin Wolfers

Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees

w13195 James J. Heckman
The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation

w13190 David W. Galenson
Wisdom and Creativity in Old Age: Lessons from the Impressionists

w13178 Olivier Deschênes
Michael Greenstone

Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US

w13188 Michael Baker
Kevin S. Milligan

Maternal employment, breastfeeding, and health: Evidence from maternity leave mandates

w13187 Radha Iyengar
An Analysis of the Performance of Federal Indigent Defense Counsel

w13186 Radha Iyengar
Does the Certainty of Arrest Reduce Domestic Violence? Evidence from Mandatory and Recommended Arrest laws

w13182 Florian Hoffman
Philip Oreopoulos

A Professor Like Me: The Influence of Instructor Gender on College Achievement

w13179 Stefania Albanesi
Claudia Olivetti

Gender Roles and Technological Progress

w13175 Albert Yung-Hsu Liu
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Jesenka Mrdjenovic

Diffusion of Common Application Membership and Admissions Outcomes at American Colleges and Universities

w13167 Abhijit Banerjee
Sebastian Galiani
Jim Levinsohn
Zoë McLaren
Ingrid Woolard

Why Has Unemployment Risen in the New South Africa

w13162 Lena Edlund
Wojciech Kopczuk

Women, Wealth and Mobility

w13161 Judith K. Hellerstein
David Neumark
Melissa McInerney

Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?

w13156 Lisa M. Lynch
The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy

w13142 Robert A. Pollak
Bargaining Around the Hearth

w13139 Donald R. Davis
James Harrigan

Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Trade Liberalization

w13138 Alexandre Mas
Labor Unrest and the Quality of Production: Evidence from the Construction Equipment Resale Market

w13135 Stephen Leider
Markus M. Möbius
Tanya Rosenblat
Quoc-Anh Do

Directed Altruism and Enforced Reciprocity in Social Networks: How Much is A Friend Worth?

w13128 Thomas Lemieux
W. Bentley MacLeod
Daniel Parent

Performance Pay and Wage Inequality

w13127 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Stephen Donald

The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work

w13126 Markus Mobius
Adam Szeidl

Trust and Social Collateral

w13117 Jesse Rothstein
Cecilia Elena Rouse

Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices

w13116 Sandra E. Black
Alexandra Spitz-Oener

Explaining Women's Success: Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work

w13106 Frank Levy
Peter Temin

Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America

w13105 John Ameriks
Andrew Caplin
Steven Laufer
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

The Joy of Giving or Assisted Living? Using Strategic Surveys to Separate Bequest and Precautionary Motives

w13097 Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Environmental Policy as Social Policy? The Impact of Childhood Lead Exposure on Crime

w13096 Fatih Guvenen
Burhanettin Kuruscu

Understanding the Evolution of the U.S. Wage Distribution: A Theoretical Analysis

w13095 Fatih Guvenen
Burhanettin Kuruscu

A Quantitative Analysis of the Evolution of the U.S. Wage Distribution: 1970-2000

w13085 Nicholas Bloom
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen

Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle

w13082 David M. Cutler
Edward L. Glaeser
Jacob L. Vigdor

When Are Ghettos Bad? Lessons from Immigrant Segregation in the United States

w13080 Judith Hellerstein
David Neumark
Melissa McInerney

Changes in Workplace Segregation in the United States between 1990 and 2000: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

w13067 William Adams
Liran Einav
Jonathan Levin

Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending

w13066 Kevin Lang
Hong Kang

Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage

w13064 Tor Eriksson
Niels Westergaard-Nielsen

Wage and Labor Mobility in Denmark, 1980-2000

w13062 Alejandro Cuñat
Marc J. Melitz

Volatility, Labor Market Flexibility, and the Pattern of Comparative Advantage

w13052 David Card
Alexandre Mas
Jesse Rothstein

Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation

w13051 Alberto Alesina
Paola Giuliano

The Power of the Family

w13049 Emily Oster
HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why Not Africa?

w13045 Melissa S. Kearney
Phillip B. Levine

Subsidized Contraception, Fertility, and Sexual Behavior

w13043 John M. Abowd
John Haltiwanger
Julia Lane
Kevin L. McKinney
Kristin Sandusky

Technology and the Demand for Skill:An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences

w13039 Guido Imbens
Thomas Lemieux

Regression Discontinuity Designs: A Guide to Practice

w13038 Bruce A. Weinberg
Social Interactions with Endogenous Associations

w13036 Roland G. Fryer
Michael Greenstone

The Causes and Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities

w13034 Jennifer Hunt
Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda

w13032 Alan B. Krueger
David Schkade

Sorting in the Labor Market: Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?

w13029 Bruno Contini
Roberto Leombruni
Lia Pacelli
Claudia Villosio

Wage Mobility and Dynamics in Italy in the 90's

w13027 Alan B. Krueger
David A. Schkade

The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures

w13026 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Replication in Economics

w13025 Hilary W. Hoynes
Diane Schanzenbach

Consumption Responses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program

w13022 Jacob L. Vigdor
The Katrina Effect: Was There a Bright Side to the Evacuation of Greater New Orleans?

w13021 Oskar Nordström Skans
Per-Anders Edin
Bertil Holmlund

Wage dispersion between and within plants: Sweden 1985-2000

w13017 Richard Rogerson
Johanna Wallenius

Micro and Macro Elasticities in a Life Cycle Model With Taxes

w13015 Susan Helper
Morris M. Kleiner

International Differences in Lean Production, Productivity and Employee Attitudes

w13012 Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Does the Minimum Wage Cause Inefficient Rationing?

w13006 Paul Beaudry
David A. Green
Benjamin Sand

Spill-Overs from Good Jobs

w13000 Michael Burda
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Philippe Weil

Total Work, Gender and Social Norms

w12998 Guido Friebel
Elena Panova

Insider Privatization and Careers - A Study of a Russian Firm in Transition

w12997 John S. Earle
Álmos Telegdy

Ownership and Wages: Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials using LEED from Hungary, 1986-2003

w12989 Paul Oyer
Ability and Employer Learning: Evidence from the Economist Labor Market

w12985 Anders Bjorklund
Markus Jantti
Gary Solon

Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents

w12984 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The Race between Education and Technology: The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005

w12980 Marc-Andreas Muendler
Trade and Workforce Changeover in Brazil

w12979 Marc-Arthur Diaye
Nathalie Greenan
Michal Urdanivia

Subjective Evaluation of Performance Through Individual Evaluation Interview: Empirical evidence from France

w12978 Thierry Lallemand
Robert Plasman
Francois Rycx

Wage Structure and Firm Productivity in Belgium

w12977 Lars Vilhuber
Adjusting Imperfect Data: Overview and Case Studies

w12976 Stephen V. Burks
Jeffrey Carpenter
Lorenz Goette
Kristen Monaco
Aldo Rustichini
Kay Porter

Using Behavioral Economic Field Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier: The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project

w12975 Colleen N. Flaherty
The Effect of Tuition Reimbursement on Turnover: A Case Study Analysis

w12974 Arngrim Hunnes
Jarle Møen
Kjell G. Salvanes

Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in Norway 1980-1997

w12958 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier

Projecting Behavioral Responses to the Next Generation of Retirement Policies

w12956 Giovanni Peri
Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages: Evidence from California

w12951 Steven F. Lehrer
Nuno Sousa Pereira

Worker Sorting, Compensating Differentials and Health Insurance: Evidence from Displaced Workers

w12944 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces

w12935 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew Oswald

Is Well-being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?

w12934 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald

Hypertension and Happiness across Nations

w12932 Patrick Bayer
Randi Hjalmarsson
David Pozen

Building Criminal Capital behind Bars: Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections

w12931 Jeffrey R. Kling
Methodological Frontiers of Public Finance Field Experiments

w12928 David W. Galenson
Who Were the Greatest Women Artists of the Twentieth Century? A Quantitative Investigation

w12926 Eric V. Edmonds
Child Labor

w12921 Andrea Mattozzi
Antonio Merlo

Political Careers or Career Politicians?

w12920 Andrea Mattozzi
Antonio Merlo

Mediocracy

w12915 David Neumark
William Wascher

Minimum Wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Employment: Evidence from the Post-Welfare Reform Era

w12910 Efraim Benmelech
Claude Berrebi

Attack Assignments in Terror Organizations and The Productivity of Suicide Bombers

w12908 Shelly Lundberg
Robert A. Pollak

The American Family and Family Economics

w12897 T. Clifton Green
Narasimhan Jegadeesh
Yue Tang

Gender and Job Performance: Evidence from Wall Street

w12893 David Card
Raj Chetty
Andrea Weber

The Spike at Benefit Exhaustion: Leaving the Unemployment System or Starting a New Job?

w12891 Lei Fang
Richard Rogerson

Product Market Regulation and Market Work: A Benchmark Analysis

w12888 Raquel Fernandez
Women, Work, and Culture

w12884 Eric V. Edmonds
Nina Pavcnik
Petia Topalova

Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform

w12883 David Card
Pablo Ibarraran
Ferdinando Regalia
David Rosas
Yuri Soares

The Labor Market Impacts of Youth Training in the Dominican Republic: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation

w12878 Wei Chi
Richard B. Freeman
Morris M. Kleiner

Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs

w12875 Benjamin E. Hermalin
Michael S. Weisbach

Transparency and Corporate Governance

w12871 Jess Benhabib
Boyan Jovanovic

Optimal Migration: A World Perspective

w12869 Isaac Ehrlich
Jinyoung Kim

Has Social Security Influenced Family Formation and Fertility in OECD Countries? An Economic and Econometric Analysis

w12865 Bruce D. Meyer
Wallace K. C. Mok

Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Insurance from New York State

w12860 David H. Autor
William R. Kerr
Adriana D. Kugler

Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

w12853 Michael W. Elsby
Ryan Michaels
Gary Solon

The Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment

w12846 Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
Bruce A. Weinberg

Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes

w12844 Bruce A. Weinberg
Belton M. Fleisher
Masanori Hashimoto

Evaluating Methods for Evaluating Instruction: The Case of Higher Education

w12840 Flavio Cunha
James Heckman

The Technology of Skill Formation

w12838 Bruno L. S. Falcao
Rodrigo R. Soares

The Demographic Transition and the Sexual Division of Labor

w12832 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development

w12831 Alberto Abadie
Alexis Diamond
Jens Hainmueller

Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program

w12830 Li Gan
Guan Gong

Estimating Interdependence Between Health and Education in a Dynamic Model

w12817 Brian A. Jacob
Test-Based Accountability and Student Achievement: An Investigation of Differential Performance on NAEP and State Assessments

w12815 Luis Garicano
Thomas N. Hubbard

The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies


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