NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
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NBER Papers in Labor Studies

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2009
w15486 Carol McAusland
Peter J. Kuhn

Bidding for Brains: Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers

w15480 Ann Huff Stevens
Jessamyn Schaller

Short-run Effects of Parental Job Loss on Children's Academic Achievement

w15474 James Feyrer
The US Productivity Slowdown, the Baby Boom, and Management Quality

w15473 Will Dobbie
Roland G. Fryer
Jr

Are High Quality Schools Enough to Close the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem

w15465 Efraim Benmelech
Claude Berrebi
Esteban F. Klor

The Economic Cost of Harboring Terrorism

w15446 Caroline M. Hoxby
The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges

w15435 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

What the Stock Market Decline Means for the Financial Security and Retirement Choices of the Near-Retirement Population

w15430 Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Steven D. Levitt

An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics

w15408 Anthony B. Atkinson
Thomas Piketty
Emmanuel Saez

Top Incomes in the Long Run of History

w15406 George J. Borjas
Rachel M. Friedberg

Recent Trends in the Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States

w15398 Judith K. Hellerstein
Melissa McInerney
David Neumark

Spatial Mismatch, Immigrant Networks, and Hispanic Employment in the United States

w15395 Courtney Coile
Phillip B. Levine

The Market Crash and Mass Layoffs: How the Current Economic Crisis May Affect Retirement

w15387 David Deming
Susan Dynarski

Into College, Out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor

w15361 Eric P. Bettinger
Bridget Terry Long
Philip Oreopoulos
Lisa Sanbonmatsu

The Role of Simplification and Information in College Decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA Experiment

w15351 Robert J. Gordon
Misperceptions About the Magnitude and Timing of Changes in American Income Inequality

w15339 Philip Oreopoulos
Kjell G. Salvanes

How large are returns to schooling? Hint: Money isn't everything

w15326 Emily Oster
Ira Shoulson
Kimberly Quaid
E. Ray Dorsey

Genetic Adverse Selection: Evidence from Long-Term Care Insurance and Huntington Disease

w15323 Karthik Muralidharan
Venkatesh Sundararaman

Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India

w15322 Jeremy T. Fox
Estimating the Employer Switching Costs and Wage Responses of Forward-Looking Engineers

w15320 Richard V. Burkhauser
Shuaizhang Feng
Stephen P. Jenkins
Jeff Larrimore

Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data

w15319 Diego A. Comin
Bart Hobijn

The CHAT Dataset

w15317 Ning Tang
Olivia S. Mitchell
Gary R. Mottola
Stephen Utkus

The Efficiency of Sponsor and Participant Portfolio Choices in 401(k) Plans

w15301 Alberto Abadie
Guido W. Imbens

Matching on the Estimated Propensity Score

w15298 Stefano DellaVigna
Matthew Gentzkow

Persuasion: Empirical Evidence

w15291 Scott Imberman
Adriana D. Kugler
Bruce Sacerdote

Katrina's Children: Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects from Hurricane Evacuees

w15287 Alan S. Blinder
Alan B. Krueger

Alternative Measures of Offshorability: A Survey Approach

w15285 Waverly W. Ding
Sharon G. Levin
Paula E. Stephan
Anne E. Winkler

The Impact of Information Technology on Scientists' Productivity, Quality and Collaboration Patterns

w15284 Garey Ramey
Valerie A. Ramey

The Rug Rat Race

w15277 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Grazing, Goods and Girth: Determinants and Effects

w15272 John Bound
Brad Hershbein
Bridget Terry Long

Playing the Admissions Game: Student Reactions to Increasing College Competition

w15257 Jonathan Heathcote
Kjetil Storesletten
Giovanni L. Violante

Consumption and Labor Supply with Partial Insurance: An Analytical Framework

w15236 Rashmi Barua
Kevin Lang

School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE

w15219 Long Chen
Lu Zhang

The stock market and aggregate employment

w15216 Douglas A. Webber
Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education

w15210 Patrick Bajari
Jeremy T. Fox
Kyoo il Kim
Stephen P. Ryan

A Simple Nonparametric Estimator for the Distribution of Random Coefficients

w15206 Jed Kolko
David Neumark

Do Some Enterprise Zones Create Jobs?

w15204 Peter Blair Henry
Diego Sasson

Capital Market Integration and Wages

w15202 C. Kirabo Jackson
Elias Bruegmann

Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: The Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers

w15186 Deepti Goel
Kevin Lang

Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants

w15181 Bruce D. Meyer
Wallace K. C. Mok
James X. Sullivan

The Under-Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys: Its Nature and Consequences

w15161 Kasey S. Buckles
Melanie E. Guldi
Joseph Price

Changing the Price of Marriage: Evidence from Blood Test Requirements

w15151 John C. Ham
Xianghong Li
Lara Shore-Sheppard

Seam Bias, Multiple-State, Multiple-Spell Duration Models and the Employment Dynamics of Disadvantaged Women

w15150 David H. Autor
David Dorn

Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States

w15147 Jeremy T. Fox
Amit Gandhi

Identifying Heterogeneity in Economic Choice Models

w15136 Michael Schwarz
Sergei Severinov

Investment Tournaments: When Should a Rational Agent Put All Eggs in One Basket?

w15129 Nicholas Bloom
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen

The organization of firms across countries

w15117 Michael W. L. Elsby
Matthew D. Shapiro

Stepping Off the Wage Escalator: The Effects of Wage Growth on Equilibrium Employment

w15116 David H. Autor
Michael J. Handel

Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks and Wages

w15112 W. Bentley MacLeod
Miguel Urquiola

Anti-Lemons: School Reputation and Educational Quality

w15108 Olivia S. Mitchell
Gary R. Mottola
Stephen P. Utkus
Takeshi Yamaguchi

Default, Framing and Spillover Effects: The Case of Lifecycle Funds in 401(k) Plans

w15099 Howard Bodenhorn
Gregory Price

Crime and Body Weight in the Nineteenth Century: Was there a Relationship between Brawn, Employment Opportunities and Crime?

w15092 Jeremy T. Fox
Identification in Matching Games

w15080 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Klara Sabirianova Peter
Dmitriy Stolyarov

Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income

w15079 Jingjing Chai
Wolfram Horneff
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell

Extending Life Cycle Models of Optimal Portfolio Choice: Integrating Flexible Work, Endogenous Retirement, and Investment Decisions with Lifetime Payouts

w15078 Kenneth Y. Chay
Jonathan Guryan
Bhashkar Mazumder

Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth

w15076 Erling Barth
Karl O. Moene

The Equality Multiplier

w15074 Qingyan Shang
Bruce A. Weinberg

Opting For Families: Recent Trends in the Fertility of Highly Educated Women

w15073 David Galenson
Conceptual Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Art

w15066 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle

w15064 Christina M. Fong
Erzo F.P. Luttmer

Do Race and Fairness Matter in Generosity? Evidence from a Nationally Representative Charity Experiment

w15057 Rema Hanna
Leigh Linden

Measuring Discrimination in Education

w15056 Katherine Ho
Matthew Neidell

Equilibrium effects of public goods: The impact of community water fluoridation on dentists

w15036 Philip Oreopoulos
Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? A Field Experiment with Six Thousand Resumes

w15016 Steven D. Levitt
John A. List

Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments

w15011 Bulent Guler
Fatih Guvenen
Giovanni L. Violante

Joint-Search Theory: New Opportunities and New Frictions

w15006 Muriel Niederle
Alvin E. Roth
M. Utku Ünver

Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation

w14987 John Cawley
Joshua A. Price

Outcomes in a Program that Offers Financial Rewards for Weight Loss

w14979 Morris M. Kleiner
Alan B. Krueger

Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market

w14975 Nicholas Bloom
Luis Garicano
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen

The distinct effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on firm organization

w14969 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness

w14966 Jesse Rothstein
Is the EITC Equivalent to an NIT? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence

w14962 Richard B. Freeman
What Does Global Expansion of Higher Education Mean for the US?

w14959 Scott E. Carrell
Marianne E. Page
James E. West

Sex and Science: How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap

w14945 Carlos Dobkin
Fernando Ferreira

Do School Entry Laws Affect Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes?

w14942 Gary D. Libecap
Dean Lueck

The Demarcation of Land and the Role of Coordinating Institutions

w14923 Chang-Tai Hsieh
Edward Miguel
Daniel Ortega
Francisco Rodriguez

The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta

w14922 Robin S. Lee
Michael Schwarz

Interviewing in Two-Sided Matching Markets

w14921 Alexander Frankel
Michael Schwarz

Experts and Their Records

w14920 Jennifer Hunt
Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa

w14915 Veronica Guerrieri
Robert Shimer
Randall Wright

Adverse Selection in Competitive Search Equilibrium

w14911 C. Kirabo Jackson
Ability-grouping and Academic Inequality: Evidence From Rule-based Student Assignments

w14908 Tara Watson
Inequality and the Measurement of Residential Segregation by Income In American Neighborhoods

w14900 Francesca Mazzolari
David Neumark

Beyond Wages: The Effects of Immigration on the Scale and Composition of Output

w14896 Guido W. Imbens
Better LATE Than Nothing: Some Comments on Deaton (2009) and Heckman and Urzua (2009)

w14893 Stefano Gagliarducci
M. Daniele Paserman

Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena

w14885 Peter Arcidiacono
Esteban M. Aucejo
Hanming Fang
Kenneth I. Spenner

Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence

w14884 Eric D. Gould
Victor Lavy
M. Daniele Paserman

Sixty Years after the Magic Carpet Ride: The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes

w14860 Bryan S. Graham
Guido W. Imbens
Geert Ridder

Complementarity and Aggregate Implications of Assortative Matching: A Nonparametric Analysis

w14853 Emily Oster
Rebecca Thornton

Menstruation and Education in Nepal

w14852 Caroline M. Hoxby
Sonali Murarka

Charter Schools in New York City: Who Enrolls and How They Affect Their Students' Achievement

w14851 Philippe Aghion
Mathias Dewatripont
Caroline M. Hoxby
Andreu Mas-Colell
André Sapir

The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from Europe and the U.S.

w14840 Muriel Niederle
Leeat Yariv

Decentralized Matching with Aligned Preferences

w14836 Raj Chetty
Emmanuel Saez

Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients

w14833 Francesc Ortega
Giovanni Peri

The Causes and Effects of International Migrations: Evidence from OECD Countries 1980-2005

w14830 Robert Buchele
Douglas Kruse
Loren Rodgers
Adria Scharf

Show Me the Money: Does Shared Capitalism Share the Wealth?

w14828 Emily Oster
Rebecca Thornton

Determinants of Technology Adoption: Private Value and Peer Effects in Menstrual Cup Take-Up

w14827 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Five Decades of Consumption and Income Poverty

w14813 Ulrike Malmendier
Stefan Nagel

Depression Babies: Do Macroeconomic Experiences Affect Risk-Taking?

w14809 Daron Acemoglu
When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation?

w14807 David Neumark
Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency: Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Increasing Productivity

w14806 Edward L. Glaeser
Joshua D. Gottlieb

The Wealth of Cities: Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States

w14805 Katharine G. Abraham
John C. Haltiwanger
Kristin Sandusky
James Spletzer

Exploring Differences in Employment between Household and Establishment Data

w14801 Christopher Blattman
Edward Miguel

Civil War

w14796 George J. Borjas
The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration

w14792 John Bound
Sarah Turner
Patrick Walsh

Internationalization of U.S. Doctorate Education

w14789 Richard B. Freeman
Labor Regulations, Unions, and Social Protection in Developing Countries: Market distortions or Efficient Institutions?

w14781 Joshua D. Angrist
Stacey H. Chen
Brigham R. Frandsen

Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health

w14780 Jennifer L. Steele
Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett

Do Financial Incentives Help Low-Performing Schools Attract and Keep Academically Talented Teachers? Evidence from California

w14776 Marc-Andreas Muendler
Sascha O. Becker

Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

w14775 Marigee Bacolod
John DiNardo
Mireille Jacobson

Beyond Incentives: Do Schools use Accountability Rewards Productively?

w14773 Tara Watson
Sara McLanahan

Marriage Meets the Joneses: Relative Income, Identity, and Marital Status

w14749 Joseph Price
Lars Lefgren
Henry Tappen

Interracial Workplace Cooperation: Evidence from the NBA

w14744 Daron Acemoglu
Amy Finkelstein
Matthew J. Notowidigdo

Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks

w14743 Joseph G. Altonji
Anthony Smith
Ivan Vidangos

Modeling Earnings Dynamics

w14742 Jonathan Guryan
Melissa Schettini Kearney

Is Lottery Gambling Addictive?

w14741 Luis Garicano
Thomas Hubbard

Earnings Inequality and Coordination Costs: Evidence From U.S. Law Firms

w14726 Guido Imbens
Karthik Kalyanaraman

Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator

w14723 David S. Lee
Thomas Lemieux

Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics

w14721 Janet Currie
Stefano DellaVigna
Enrico Moretti
Vikram Pathania

The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity and Weight Gain

w14720 John F. Helliwell
Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh
Anthony Harris
Haifang Huang

International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being

w14717 Jane Leber Herr
Catherine Wolfram

"Opt-Out" Rates at Motherhood Across High-Education Career Paths: Selection Versus Work Environment

w14713 Lex Borghans
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
James J. Heckman
Huub Meijers

Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion

w14709 David Lee
Alexandre Mas

Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999

w14689 Michael Schwarz
M. Bumin Yenmez

Median Stable Matching

w14683 David Card
Immigration and Inequality

w14681 Marianne Bertrand
Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors

w14676 Michael Burda
Daniel S. Hamermesh

Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production

w14666 Jesse Rothstein
Student sorting and bias in value added estimation: Selection on observables and unobservables

w14665 Jonathan A. Parker
Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

Who Bears Aggregate Fluctuations and How?

w14660 Wen-Jui Han
Christopher Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel
Elizabeth Washbrook

Public Policies and Women's Employment after Childbearing

w14652 David Autor
David Dorn

This Job is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure

w14647 Jonathan Gruber
Kevin Milligan
David A. Wise

Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: The Relationship to Youth Employment, Introduction and Summary

w14644 Thomas Philippon
Ariell Reshef

Wages and Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry: 1909-2006

w14633 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation


2008
w14618 Clayton Featherstone
Muriel Niederle

Ex Ante Efficiency in School Choice Mechanisms: An Experimental Investigation

w14617 Michael Elsby
Bart Hobijn
Aysegul Sahin

Unemployment Dynamics in the OECD

w14608 Steven Cantrell
Jon Fullerton
Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger

National Board Certification and Teacher Effectiveness: Evidence from a Random Assignment Experiment

w14607 Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger

Estimating Teacher Impacts on Student Achievement: An Experimental Evaluation

w14604 Peter Blair Henry
Conrad Miller

Institutions vs. Policies: A Tale of Two Islands

w14602 Matthew J. Higgins
Paula E. Stephan
Jerry G. Thursby

Conveying Quality and Value in Emerging Industries: Star Scientists and the Role of Learning in Biotechnology

w14599 Gordon Dahl
Lance Lochner

The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

w14589 John F. Helliwell
Haifang Huang

Well-being and Trust in the Workplace

w14573 Kasey Buckles
Daniel M. Hungerman

Season of Birth and Later Outcomes: Old Questions, New Answers

w14570 Brian A. Jacob
Jens Ludwig

The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Voucher Lottery

w14568 Sherry A. Glied
Ashwin Prabhu
Norman H. Edelman

The Cost of Primary Care Doctors

w14566 Ana Rute Cardoso
Daniel S. Hamermesh
José Varejăo

The Timing of Labor Demand

w14553 Harald Uhlig
The Slow Decline of East Germany

w14535 Helena Skyt Nielsen
Torben Sřrensen
Christopher R. Taber

Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform

w14540 Jeffrey B. Liebman
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
David G. Seif

Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities

w14537 Chiaki Moriguchi
Top Wage Incomes in Japan, 1951-2005

w14536 Richard H. Steckel
Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions

w14530 David Neumark
Jed Kolko

Do Enterprise Zones Create Jobs? Evidence from California's Enterprise Zone Program

w14516 Stephanie Riegg Cellini
Fernando Ferreira
Jesse Rothstein

The Value of School Facilities: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design

w14502 Pascal Courty
Gerald R. Marschke

On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations

w14491 Maria Guadalupe
Julie Wulf

The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization

w14490 Gordon H. Hanson
The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor

w14482 Janet Currie
Mark Stabile
Phongsack Manivong
Leslie L. Roos

Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes

w14472 David Albouy
Are Big Cities Really Bad Places to Live? Improving Quality-of-Life Estimates across Cities

w14470 David Card
Alexandre Mas
Jesse Rothstein

Are Mixed Neighborhoods Always Unstable? Two-Sided and One-Sided Tipping

w14469 Bryan S. Graham
James Powell

Identification and Estimation of 'Irregular' Correlated Random Coefficient Models

w14466 Dhaval M. Dave
Nancy E. Reichman
Hope Corman

Effects of Welfare Reform on Educational Acquisition of Young Adult Women

w14464 Suzanne Scotchmer
Risk Taking and Gender in Hierarchies

w14462 Dora L. Costa
The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects

w14458 Richard V. Burkhauser
Shuaizhang Feng
Jeff Larrimore

Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data: The Value of Including Variances and Cell Means When Imputing Topcoded Values

w14455 Randall D. Cebul
James B. Rebitzer
Lowell J. Taylor
Mark E. Votruba

Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Frictions and the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance

w14454 Matteo Bugamelli
Fabiano Schivardi
Roberta Zizza

The Euro and Firm Restructuring

w14442 Jesse Rothstein
Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement

w14436 Liran Einav
Ephraim Leibtag
Aviv Nevo

Not-so-Classical Measurement Errors: A Validation Study of Homescan

w14415 Victor Lavy
M. Daniele Paserman
Analia Schlosser

Inside the Black of Box of Ability Peer Effects: Evidence from Variation in the Proportion of Low Achievers in the Classroom

w14399 Raj Chetty
Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge Between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods

w14394 Nicholas Bloom
Christos Genakos
Ralf Martin
Raffaella Sadun

Modern Management: Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?

w14388 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
Albert Yung-Hsu Liu
Kerry L. Papps

The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations

w14387 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
Kerry L. Papps

Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants: 1980-2000

w14385 Bruce Sacerdote
When The Saints Come Marching In: Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Student Evacuees

w14370 Enrico Moretti
Real Wage Inequality

w14364 Thomas DeLeire
Christopher Timmins

Roy Model Sorting and Non-Random Selection in the Valuation of a Statistical Life

w14354 Anna Aizer
Peer Effects and Human Capital Accumulation: the Externalities of ADD

w14353 Christopher F. Chabris
David Laibson
Carrie L. Morris
Jonathon P. Schuldt
Dmitry Taubinsky

Measuring intertemporal preferences using response times

w14348 David H. Autor
The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework

w14346 Betsey Stevenson
Divorce Law and Women's Labor Supply

w14340 Isaac Ehrlich
William A. Hamlen Jr.
Yong Yin

Asset Management, Human Capital, and the Market for Risky Assets

w14338 Victor Lavy
Gender Differences in Market Competitiveness in a Real Workplace: Evidence from Performance-based Pay Tournaments among Teachers

w14337 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald
Bert Van Landeghem

Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility

w14332 Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Ralph Rogalla

Managing Contribution and Capital Market Risk in a Funded Public Defined Benefit Plan: Impact of CVaR Cost Constraints

w14331 Phillip Leslie
Paul Oyer

Managerial Incentives and Value Creation: Evidence from Private Equity

w14329 Robert E. Hall
Alan B. Krueger

Wage Formation between Newly Hired Workers and Employers: Survey Evidence

w14328 Liliana E. Pezzin
Robert A. Pollak
Barbara S. Schone

Long-Term Care of the Disabled Elderly: Do Children Increase Caregiving by Spouses?

w14327 Philippe Aghion
Yann Algan
Pierre Cahuc

Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations

w14320 David Lee
Emmanuel Saez

Optimal Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets

w14318 David G. Blanchflower
International evidence on well-being

w14312 Jennifer Hunt
Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle

How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?

w14301 Henrik Jacobsen Kleven
Wojciech Kopczuk

Transfer Program Complexity and the Take Up of Social Benefits

w14314 Donald Boyd
Pamela Grossman
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb
James Wyckoff

Teacher Preparation and Student Achievement

w14308 Morris M. Kleiner
Alan B. Krueger

The Prevalence and Effects of Occupational Licensing

w14306 Douglas Almond
Hilary W. Hoynes
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes

w14300 Steven J. Davis
R. Jason Faberman
John Haltiwanger
Ron Jarmin
Javier Miranda

Business Volatility, Job Destruction, and Unemployment

w14293 Adriana Kugler
Mutlu Yuksel

Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch

w14282 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being: Reassessing the Easterlin Paradox

w14281 Charles Calomiris
Jonathan Pritchett

Preserving Slave Families for Profit: Traders' Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market

w14276 Jesse Rothstein
Albert H. Yoon

Affirmative Action in Law School Admissions: What Do Racial Preferences Do?

w14275 Jesse Rothstein
Albert Yoon

Mismatch in Law School

w14274 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores

w14261 Jason M. Lindo
Nicholas J. Sanders
Philip Oreopoulos

Ability, Gender, and Performance Standards: Evidence from Academic Probation

w14229 Joseph R. Blasi
Douglas L. Kruse
Harry M. Markowitz

Risk and Lack of Diversification under Employee Ownership and Shared Capitalism

w14273 Ross Levine
Alexey Levkov
Yona Rubinstein

Racial Discrimination and Competition

w14272 Arindrajit Dube
Richard Freeman

Complementarity of Shared Compensation and Decision-Making Systems: Evidence from the American Labor Market

w14265 Melissa Clark
Jesse Rothstein
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Selection Bias in College Admissions Test Scores

w14251 Guido M. Imbens
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation

w14248 Chinhui Juhn
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
Belgi Turan

HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys

w14247 Richard V. Burkhauser
Shuaizhang Feng
Stephen P. Jenkins
Jeff Larrimore

Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring

w14246 Scott E. Carrell
Mark L. Hoekstra

Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's Kids

w14234 Erika Harden
Douglas L. Kruse
Joseph R. Blasi

Who Has a Better Idea? Innovation, Shared Capitalism, and HR Policies

w14233 Douglas Kruse
Richard Freeman
Joseph Blasi

Do Workers Gain by Sharing? Employee Outcomes under Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Broad-based Stock Options

w14230 Joseph R. Blasi
Richard B. Freeman
Chris Mackin
Douglas L. Kruse

Creating a Bigger Pie? The Effects of Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Stock Options on Workplace Performance

w14227 Richard Freeman
Douglas Kruse
Joseph Blasi

WORKER RESPONSES TO SHIRKING UNDER SHARED CAPITALISM

w14225 Douglas L. Kruse
Joseph R. Blasi
Rhokeun Park

Shared Capitalism in the U.S. Economy? Prevalence, Characteristics, and Employee Views of Financial Participation in Enterprises

w14236 John W. Budd
Does Employee Ignorance Undermine Shared Capitalism?

w14235 Alex Bryson
Richard Freeman

How Does Shared Capitalism Affect Economic Performance in the UK?

w14220 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Happiness Inequality in the United States

w14216 Rupert Harrison
Jordi Jaumandreu
Jacques Mairesse
Bettina Peters

Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries

w14212 Randall D. Cebul
James B. Rebitzer
Lowell J. Taylor
Mark Votruba

Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Health Care System

w14211 Eric A. Hanushek
Steven G. Rivkin

Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap

w14208 Miles S. Kimball
Matthew D. Shapiro

Labor Supply: Are the Income and Substitution Effects Both Large or Both Small?

w14203 David Albouy
The Wage Gap between Francophones and Anglophones: A Canadian Perspective, 1970 to 2000

w14202 Alberto F. Alesina
Francesca Lotti
Paolo Emilio Mistrulli

Do Women Pay More for Credit? Evidence from Italy

w14201 Judith K. Hellerstein
Melissa McInerney
David Neumark

Neighbors And Co-Workers: The Importance Of Residential Labor Market Networks

w14192 Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Lisa Kahn
Steven D. Levitt
Jörg L. Spenkuch

The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents

w14188 Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano
Giovanni Peri

Immigration and National Wages: Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics

w14182 David Galenson
The Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century: Goals, Methods, and Life Cycles

w14176 David Card
Martin Dooley
Abigail Payne

School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools

w14174 Joseph J. Doyle
Jr.
Steven M. Ewer
Todd H. Wagner

Returns to Physician Human Capital: Analyzing Patients Randomized to Physician Teams

w14167 Price V. Fishback
Rebecca Holmes
Samuel Allen

Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality: Measures of the Labor Legislation Climate in the States During the Progressive Era

w14159 James B. Rebitzer
Mari Rege
Christopher Shepard

Influence, Information Overload, and Information Technology in Health Care

w14156 Pinka Chatterji
Sara Markowitz

Family Leave after Childbirth and the Health of New Mothers

w14150 David Galenson
Joshua Kotin

From the New Wave to the New Hollywood: The Life Cycles of Important Movie Directors from Godard and Truffaut to Spielberg and Eastwood

w14145 Carola Frydman
Raven E. Saks

Executive Compensation: A New View from a Long-Term Perspective, 1936-2005

w14140 Ulrike Malmendier
Geoffrey Tate

Superstar CEOs

w14137 Steven J. Davis
R. Jason Faberman
John C. Haltiwanger
Ian Rucker

Adjusted Estimates of Worker Flows and Job Openings in JOLTS

w14122 Elhanan Helpman
Oleg Itskhoki
Stephen Redding

Wages, Unemployment and Inequality with Heterogeneous Firms and Workers

w14114 Bruce Sacerdote
James Feyrer

Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility Within Developed Nations

w14105 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas Steinmeier

How Changes in Social Security Affect Recent Retirement Trends

w14104 John Cawley
John R. Moran
Kosali I. Simon

The Impact of Income on the Weight of Elderly Americans

w14097 Alessandra Fogli
Laura Veldkamp

Nature or Nurture? Learning and the Geography of Female Labor Force Participation

w14089 Amy Finkelstein
Erzo F.P. Luttmer
Matthew J. Notowidigdo

What Good Is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption

w14076 Katharine G. Abraham
Sara E. Helms
Stanley Presser

How Social Processes Distort Measurement: The Impact of Survey Nonresponse on Estimates of Volunteer Work

w14075 Donggyun Shin
Gary Solon

Trends in Men's Earnings Volatility: What Does the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Show?

w14070 Andrew Epstein
Jonathan D. Ketcham
Sean Nicholson

Professional Partnerships and Matching in Obstetrics

w14066 David Galenson
The Back Story of Twentieth-Century Art

w14065 Brian A. Jacob
Lars Lefgren
David Sims

The Persistence of Teacher-Induced Learning Gains

w14064 James J. Heckman
Schools, Skills, and Synapses

w14062 Michael D. Grubb
Paul Oyer

Who Benefits from Tax-Advantaged Employee Benefits?: Evidence from University Parking

w14061 Runjuan Liu
Daniel Trefler

Much Ado About Nothing: American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India

w14060 Laura Alfaro
Andrew Charlton
Fabio Kanczuk

Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences

w14055 Wolfram J. Horneff
Raimond H. Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Michael Z. Stamos

Asset Allocation and Location over the Life Cycle with Survival-Contingent Payouts

w14052 Jonathan Heathcote
Kjetil Storesletten
Giovanni L. Violante

The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

w14021 Donald Boyd
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb
Jonah Rockoff
James Wyckoff

The Narrowing Gap in New York City Teacher Qualifications and its Implications for Student Achievement in High-Poverty Schools

w14039 Karin Mayr
Giovanni Peri

Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain

w14038 Jordan D. Matsudaira
Rebecca M. Blank

The Impact of Earnings Disregards on the Behavior of Low Income Families

w14036 Terra McKinnish
Randall Walsh
Kirk White

Who Gentrifies Low-Income Neighborhoods?

w14035 Peter J. Kuhn
Peter Kooreman
Adriaan R. Soetevent
Arie Kapteyn

The Own and Social Effects of an Unexpected Income Shock: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery

w14031 Sharon L. Maccini
Dean Yang

Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall

w14022 Donald Boyd
Pam Grossman
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb
James Wyckoff

Who Leaves? Teacher Attrition and Student Achievement

w14014 Anders Björklund
Richard Freeman

Searching for Optimal Inequality/Incentives

w13997 John Cawley
C. Katharina Spiess

Obesity and Skill Attainment in Early Childhood

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


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