NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Labor Studies Archive

NBER Papers in Labor Studies


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
Tom Vogl

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

Race, Segregation, and Postal Employment: New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch

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
Günther 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

Does a Higher Minimum Wage Enhance the Effectiveness of The Earned Income Tax Credit?

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

w12885 Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
Nina Pavcnik

Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries

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


2006
w12799 Desiree van Welsum
Xavier Reif

We Can Work It Out - The Globalisation of ICT-enabled Services

w12798 Michael S. Weisbach
Optimal Executive Compensation vs. Managerial Power: A Review of Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried's "Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation"

w12791 Fernando Alvarez
Marcelo Veracierto

Fixed-Term Employment Contracts in an Equilibrium Search Model

w12790 Joshua Angrist
Daniel Lang
Philip Oreopoulos

Lead Them to Water and Pay Them to Drink: An Experiment with Services and Incentives for College Achievement

w12786 Lee Ohanian
Andrea Raffo
Richard Rogerson

Long-Term Changes in Labor Supply and Taxes: Evidence from OECD Countries, 1956-2004

w12779 John Whalley
Ximing Yue

Rural Income Volatility and Inequality in China

w12774 David Card
Dean R. Hyslop

The Dynamic Effects of an Earnings Subsidy for Long-Term Welfare Recipients: Evidence from the SSP Applicant Experiment

w12771 Lucian A. Bebchuk
Yaniv Grinstein
Urs Peyer

Lucky CEOs

w12768 Steven J. Davis
Magnus Henrekson

Economic Performance and Work Activity in Sweden after the Crisis of the Early 1990s

w12762 Beth J. Soldo
Olivia S. Mitchell
Rania Tfaily
John F. McCabe

Cross-Cohort Differences in Health on the Verge of Retirement

w12761 Peter J. Kuhn
Carol McAusland

The International Migration of Knowledge Workers: When is Brain Drain Beneficial?

w12757 Amil Petrin
Jagadeesh Sivadasan

Job Security Does Affect Economic Efficiency: Theory, A New Statistic, and Evidence from Chile

w12754 Hope Corman
Kelly Noonan
Nancy E. Reichman
Ofira Schwartz-Soicher

Crime and Circumstance: The Effects of Infant Health Shocks on Fathers' Criminal Activity

w12751 Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz

Party Influence in Congress and the Economy

w12743 Emily Oster
Does Increased Access Increase Equality? Gender and Child Health Investments in India

w12739 Holger M. Mueller
Thomas Philippon

Family Firms, Paternalism, and Labor Relations

w12737 Eric A. Hanushek
Victor Lavy
Kohtaro Hitomi

Do Students Care about School Quality? Determinants of Dropout Behavior in Developing Countries

w12736 Martin S. Feldstein
The Effects of the Ageing European Population on Economic Growth and Budgets: Implications for Immigration and Other Policies

w12714 David W. Galenson
Painting by Proxy: The Conceptual Artist as Manufacturer

w12706 Oliver Hart
John Moore

Contracts as Reference Points

w12700 Cyrus C. M. Mody
Instruments of Commerce and Knowledge: Probe Microscopy, 1980-2000

w12694 Markus Mobius
Raphael Schoenle

The Evolution of Work

w12691 Donna K. Ginther
Shulamit Kahn

Does Science Promote Women? Evidence from Academia 1973-2001

w12688 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Michael Moore
Younghwan Song

The Effect of Subjective Survival Probabilities on Retirement and Wealth in the United States

w12686 Li Gan
Lixin Colin Xu
Yang Yao

Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-Term Income: Evidence from Rural China

w12678 Alberto Abadie
Sofia Dermisi

Is Terrorism Eroding Agglomeration Economies in Central Business Districts? Lessons from the Office Real Estate Market in Downtown Chicago

w12665 Matthias Doepke
Dirk Krueger

Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions: A Macroeconomic Perspective

w12664 Eric A. Hanushek
Lei Zhang

Quality-Consistent Estimates of International Returns to Skill

w12663 David Neumark
William Wascher

Minimum Wages and Employment: A Review of Evidence from the New Minimum Wage Research

w12659 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Simplification and Saving

w12652 Eliot A. Jamison
Dean T. Jamison
Eric A. Hanushek

The Effects of Education Quality on Income Growth and Mortality Decline

w12651 Eric A. Hanushek
Steven G. Rivkin

School Quality and the Black-White Achievement Gap

w12645 Keith J. Crocker
Joel Slemrod

The Economics of Earnings Manipulation and Managerial Compensation

w12641 Rafael Di Tella
Juan Dubra

Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream"

w12639 David Card
Raj Chetty
Andrea Weber

Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior: New Evidence from the Labor Market

w12630 Raj Arunachalam
Trevon D. Logan

On the Heterogeneity of Dowry Motives

w12621 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Rick Mansfield
Michael Moore

Demographic Change, Social Security Systems, and Savings

w12619 Omar Galarraga
David S. Salkever
Judith A. Cook
Stephen J. Gange

An Instrumental Variable Evaluation of Antidepressant Use on Employment Among HIV-Infected Women Using Highly-Active Antiretroviral Therapy in the United States: 1996-2004

w12618 Robert Shimer
Ivan Werning

Reservation Wages and Unemployment Insurance

w12611 Michael W. Elsby
Evaluating the Economic Significance of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity

w12599 David Galenson
You Cannot be Serious: The Conceptual Innovator as Trickster

w12597 James Poterba
Joshua Rauh
Steven Venti
David Wise

Defined Contribution Plans, Defined Benefit Plans, and the Accumulation of Retirement Wealth

w12588 Richard B. Freeman
Optimal Inequality/Optimal Incentives: Evidence from a Tournament

w12583 James B. Rebitzer
Lowell J. Taylor

When Knowledge is an Asset: Explaining the Organizational Structure of Large Law Firms

w12581 Alberto Alesina
Joseph Zeira

Technology and Labor Regulations

w12574 James J. Heckman
Sergio Urzua
Edward J. Vytlacil

Understanding Instrumental Variables in Models with Essential Heterogeneity

w12561 Benjamin A. Olken
Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages

w12559 Courtney C. Coile
Phillip B. Levine

Labor Market Shocks and Retirement: Do Government Programs Matter?

w12558 Chiaki Moriguchi
Emmanuel Saez

The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan, 1886-2002: Evidence from Income Tax Statistics

w12553 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces: Lessons from History

w12549 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity: The Migration Connection

t0328 Katharine G. Abraham
Aaron Maitland
Suzanne M. Bianchi

Non-response in the American Time Use Survey: Who Is Missing from the Data and How Much Does It Matter?

w12541 Richard B. Freeman
Is A Great Labor Shortage Coming? Replacement Demand in the Global Economy

w12528 Jessica Wolpaw Reyes
Do Female Physicians Capture Their Scarcity Value? The Case of OB/GYNs

w12521 Paul Beaudry
Mark Doms
Ethan Lewis

Endogenous Skill Bias in Technology Adoption: City-Level Evidence from the IT Revolution

w12505 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman

A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality

w12518 George J. Borjas
Jeffrey Grogger
Gordon H. Hanson

Immigration and African-American Employment Opportunities: The Response of Wages, Employment, and Incarceration to Labor Supply Shocks

w12508 Alexandre Mas
Enrico Moretti

Peers at Work

w12499 David W. Galenson
A Conceptual World: Why the Art of the Twentieth Century is So Different From the Art of All Earlier Centuries

w12498 Mark Gertler
Antonella Trigari

Unemployment Fluctuations With Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining

w12497 Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano
Giovanni Peri

Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages

w12494 Rebecca M. Blank
Heidi Shierholz

Exploring Gender Differences in Employment and Wage Trends Among Less-Skilled Workers

w12490 Jennifer Hunt
How Corruption Hits People When They Are Down

w12485 Adam Ashcraft
Kevin Lang

The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing

w12480 Ellen Meara
Richard Frank

Welfare Reform, Work Requirements, and Employment Barriers

w12467 Raj Chetty
Adam Szeidl

Consumption Commitments and Risk Preferences

w12466 Anne Case
Christina Paxson

Stature and Status: Height, Ability, and Labor Market Outcomes

w12464 Kevin Lang
Erez Siniver

The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel

w12452 Louis Kaplow
Myopia and the Effects of Social Security and Capital Taxation on Labor Supply

w12444 Olivia S. Mitchell
John Piggott
Michael Sherris
Shaun Yow

Financial Innovation for an Aging World

w12440 Susana Iranzo
Giovanni Peri

Schooling Externalities, Technology and Productivity: Theory and Evidence from U.S. States

w12436 David Autor
Mark Duggan

The Growth in the Social Security Disability Rolls: A Fiscal Crisis Unfolding

w12435 Fredrik Andersson
Matthew Freedman
John C. Haltiwanger
Julia Lane
Kathryn L. Shaw

Reaching for the Stars: Who Pays for Talent in Innovative Industries?

w12430 Jayanta Bhattacharya
William B. Vogt

Employment and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance

w12424 John Bound
Sarah Turner

Cohort Crowding: How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment

w12417 Adam Looney
Monica Singhal

The Effect of Anticipated Tax Changes on Intertemporal Labor Supply and the Realization of Taxable Income

w12416 Chulhee Lee
Military Positions and Post-Service Occupational Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1861-1880

w12414 Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson

What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

w12403 David W. Galenson
Two Paths to Abstract Art: Kandinsky and Malevich

w12396 Dean Yang
Why Do Migrants Return to Poor Countries? Evidence From Philippine Migrants%u2019 Responses to Exchange Rate Shocks

w12390 Ginger Zhe Jin
Andrew Kato
John A. List

That's News to Me! Information Revelation in Professional Certification Markets

w12388 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Melvin Stephens
Jr.

The Level and Composition of Consumption Over the Business Cycle: The Role of %u201CQuasi-Fixed%u201D Expenditures

w12387 Christopher S. Ruebeck
Joseph E. Harrington
Jr.
Robert Moffitt

Handedness and Earnings

w12386 Jeffrey R. Brown
Courtney C. Coile
Scott J. Weisbenner

The Effect of Inheritance Receipt on Retirement

w12372 Ann E. Harrison
Margaret S. McMillan

Outsourcing Jobs? Multinationals and US Employment

w12369 Andrea Ichino
Enrico Moretti

Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap

w12368 Justin McCrary
The Effect of Court-Ordered Hiring Quotas on the Composition and Quality of Police

w12366 Robert Moffitt
Welfare Work Requirements with Paternalistic Government Preferences

w12365 Xavier Gabaix
Augustin Landier

Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?

w12364 Roland G. Fryer
Jr.

A Model of Social Interactions and Endogenous Poverty Traps

w12358 Liliana E. Pezzin
Robert A. Pollak
Barbara S. Schone

Efficiency in Family Bargaining: Living Arrangements and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents

w12350 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Caitlin Knowles Myers
Mark L. Pocock

Time Zones as Cues for Coordination: Latitude, Longitude, and Letterman

w12334 Muriel Niederle
Competitive Wages in a Match with Ordered Contracts

w12329 Justin McCrary
Heather Royer

The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health: Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth

w12327 Abdurrahman Aydemir
George J. Borjas

A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Market Impact of International Migration: Canada, Mexico, and the United States

w12325 Dean Yang
International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks

w12321 Francine D. Blau
Jed DeVaro

New Evidence on Gender Difference in Promotion Rates: An Empirical Analysis of a Sample of New Hires

w12318 James Heckman
Contributions of Zvi Griliches

w12315 Richard B. Freeman
People Flows in Globalization

w12310 Alex Bryson
Richard B. Freeman

Worker Needs and Voice in the US and the UK

w12306 Richard B. Freeman
Searching for the EU Social Dialogue Model

w12303 Axel Börsch-Supan
Hendrik Jürges

Early Retirement, Social Security and Well-Being in Germany

w12298 Eric I. Knudsen
James J. Heckman
Judy L. Cameron
Jack P. Shonkoff

Economic, Neurobiological and Behavioral Perspectives on Building America's Future Workforce

w12287 Reuben Gronau
Home Production and the Macro Economy-Some Lessons from Pollak and Wachter and from Transition Russia

w12282 Erica Field
Educational Debt Burden and Career Choice: Evidence from a Financial Aid Experiment at NYU Law School

w12274 Marianne Bertrand
Simeon Djankov
Rema Hanna
Sendhil Mullainathan

Does Corruption Produce Unsafe Drivers?

w12273 Kanika Kapur
Jeannette Rogowski

Love or Money? Health Insurance and Retirement Among Married Couples

w12264 Valerie A. Ramey
Neville Francis

A Century of Work and Leisure

w12262 Donggyun Shin
Gary Solon

New Evidence on Real Wage Cyclicality within Employer-Employee Matches

w12257 Kevin Lang
Michael Manove

Education and Labor-Market Discrimination

w12254 Daron Acemoglu
Amy Finkelstein

Input and Technology Choices in Regulated Industries: Evidence From the Health Care Sector

w12230 Robert Shimer
Iván Werning

On the Optimal Timing of Benefits with Heterogeneous Workers and Human Capital Depreciation

w12221 Susumu Imai
Hajime Katayama
Kala Krishna

Crime and Young Men: The Role of Arrest, Criminal Experience, and Heterogeneity

w12212 Stefania Albanesi
Claudia Olivetti

Home Production, Market Production and the Gender Wage Gap: Incentives and Expectations

w12206 Daron Acemoglu
Philippe Aghion
Claire Lelarge
John Van Reenen
Fabrizio Zilibotti

Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm

w12202 Alexandre Mas
Pay, Reference Points, and Police Performance

w12185 David W. Galenson
Analyzing Artistic Innovation: The Greatest Breakthroughs of the Twentieth Century

w12179 Elizabeth Cascio
Public Preschool and Maternal Labor Supply: Evidence from the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools

w12176 Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Alan Manning

Comprehensive versus Selective Schooling in England in Wales: What Do We Know?

w12174 Roland G. Fryer
Jr.

Belief Flipping in a Dynamic Model of Statistical Discrimination

w12147 David N. Weil
Population Aging

w12143 Jacob L. Vigdor
The New Promised Land: Black-White Convergence in the American South, 1960-2000

w12141 Gordon H. Hanson
Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States

w12139 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz
Ilyana Kuziemko

The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap

w12167 Steven J. Davis
R. Jason Faberman
John Haltiwanger

The Flow Approach to Labor Markets: New Data Sources and Micro-Macro Links

w12166 Gadi Barlevy
H.N. Nagaraja

Identification of Search Models with Initial Condition Problems

w12159 Philip Oreopoulos
Till von Wachter
Andrew Heisz

The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates

w12157 Paul Oyer
The Macro-Foundations of Microeconomics: Initial Labor Market Conditions and Long-Term Outcomes for Economists

w12116 Richard B. Freeman
Learning from Other Economies: The Unique Institutional and Policy Experiments Down Under

w12115 Catherine Weinberger
Peter Kuhn

The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis

w12114 John H. Tyler
Jeffrey R. Kling

Prison-Based Education and Re-Entry into the Mainstream Labor Market

w12088 George J. Borjas
Making it in America: Social Mobility in the Immigrant Population

w12085 George J. Borjas
Immigration in High-Skill Labor Markets: The Impact of Foreign Students on the Earnings of Doctorates

w12082 Mark Aguiar
Erik Hurst

Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time Over Five Decades

w12077 Thomas Lemieux
Post-Secondary Education and Increasing Wage Inequality

w12071 Fali Huang
Peter Cappelli

Employee Screening: Theory and Evidence

w12068 Dirk Jenter
Fadi Kanaan

CEO Turnover and Relative Performance Evaluation

w12067 Raj Chetty
A Bound on Risk Aversion Using Labor Supply Elasticities

w12066 Roland G. Fryer
Steven D. Levitt

Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children

w12065 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
George Jakubson
Jeffrey Groen
Eric So
Joseph Price

Inside the Black Box of Doctoral Education: What Program Characteristics Influence Doctoral Students' Attrition and Graduation Probabilities?

w12064 Jeffrey Groen
George Jakubson
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Scott Condie
Albert Yung-Hsu Liu

Program Design and Student Outcomes in Graduate Education

w12063 Uri Gneezy
John A. List

Putting Behavioral Economics to Work: Testing for Gift Exchange in Labor Markets Using Field Experiments

w12059 Paul Oyer
The Making of an Investment Banker: Macroeconomic Shocks, Career Choice, and Lifetime Income

w12058 David W. Galenson
The Most Important Works of Art of the Twentieth Century

w12048 Joanna Lahey
State Age Protection Laws and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

w12046 Ellen McGrattan
Edward Prescott

Why Did U.S. Market Hours Boom in the 1990s?

w12041 Edward Lazear
Ulrike Malmendier
Roberto Weber

Sorting in Experiments with Application to Social Preferences

w12038 Marcos Chamon
Michael Kremer

Economic Transformation, Population Growth and the Long-Run World Income Distribution

w12034 David W. Galenson
And Now for Something Completely Different: The Versatility of Conceptual Innovators

w12032 Diego Comin
Erica L. Groshen
Bess Rabin

Turbulent Firms, Turbulent Wages?

w12025 Thomas J. Holmes
Geographic Spillover of Unionism

w12021 Matthew Gentzkow
Jesse M. Shapiro

Does Television Rot Your Brain? New Evidence from the Coleman Study

w12019 Naci Mocan
Erdal Tekin

Ugly Criminals

w12018 James J. Heckman
Paul LaFontaine

Bias Corrected Estimates of GED Returns

w12007 Chul-In Lee
Gary Solon

Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility

w12006 James J. Heckman
Jora Stixrud
Sergio Urzua

The Effects of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities on Labor Market Outcomes and Social Behavior

w12003 Jeffrey R. Kling
Incarceration Length, Employment, and Earnings

w12002 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Time to Eat: Household Production Under Increasing Income Inequality

w11989 Justin Wolfers
Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender

w11987 John J. Donohue
Steven D. Levitt

Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005)

w11986 David H. Autor
Lawrence F. Katz
Melissa S. Kearney

The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market

w11985 Lex Borghans
Bas ter Weel
Bruce A. Weinberg

People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

w11980 Brigitte Madrian
The U.S. Health Care System and Labor Markets

w11976 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Consumption, Income, and Material Well-Being After Welfare Reform

w11975 Helen Levy
Health Insurance and the Wage Gap

w11970 Christiana Stoddard
Peter Kuhn

Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector: Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers' Work Hours?

w11969 Victor Lavy
From Forced Busing to Free Choice in Public Schools: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of Individual and General Effects

w11953 Claudia Goldin
The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women's Employment, Education, and Family

w11950 Kevin F. Hallock
Craig Olson

The Value of Stock Options to Non-Executive Employees

w11943 Steven Haider
Gary Solon

Life-Cycle Variation in the Association between Current and Lifetime Earnings

w11939 V. Joseph Hotz
Guido W. Imbens
Jacob A. Klerman

Evaluating the Differential Effects of Alternative Welfare-to-Work Training Components: A Re-Analysis of the California GAIN Program

w11932 Peter Kuhn
Chris Riddell

The Long-Term Effects of a Generous Income Support Program: Unemployment Insurance in New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991

w11925 Andrew Leigh
Justin Wolfers

Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is Not a Paradox

w11918 David Card
Brian P. McCall

When to Start a Fight and When to Fight Back: Liability Disputes in the Workers' Compensation System

w11916 Orley Ashenfelter
Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life: Problems and Prospects

w11914 A. Burak Güner
Ulrike Malmendier
Geoffrey Tate

Financial Expertise of Directors


2005
w11907 Lucian A. Bebchuk
Robert J. Jackson
Jr.

Executive Pensions

w11902 Philip J. Cook
Bethany Peters

The Myth of the Drinker's Bonus

w11899 David Galenson
The Greatest Artists of the Twentieth Century

w11895 Peter Kuhn
Fernando Lozano

The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2004

w11893 Pinka Chatterji
Margarita Alegria
Mingshun Lu
David Takeuchi

Psychiatric Disorders and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the National Latino and Asian American Study

w11892 Marianne Bertrand
Dean Karlin
Sendhil Mullainathan
Eldar Shafir
Jonathan Zinman

What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market

w11888 Robert Shimer
Mismatch

w11878 Ann Huff Stevens
The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same: Trends in Long-term Employment in the United States, 1969-2002

w11866 Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson

A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies

w11855 David Neumark
Peter S. Barth
Richard Victor

The Impact of Provider Choice on Workers' Compensation Costs and Outcomes

w11842 Ian Dew-Becker
Robert J. Gordon

Where Did the Productivity Growth Go? Inflation Dynamics and the Distribution of Income

w11836 Chulhee Lee
Rising Family Income Inequality in the United States, 1968-2000: Impacts of Changing Labor Supply, Wages, and Family Structure

w11835 Joshua D. Angrist
Victor Lavy
Analia Schlosser

New Evidence on the Causal Link Between the Quantity and Quality of Children

w11829 David Card
Sara de la Rica

The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

w11827 James Markusen
Modeling the Offshoring of White-Collar Services: From Comparative Advantage to the New Theories of Trade and FDI

w11817 Paul Oyer
Salary or Benefits?

w11808 Leora Friedberg
Michael T. Owyang
Tara M. Sinclair

Searching for Better Prospects: Endogenizing Falling Job Tenure and Private Pension Coverage

w11807 John Helliwell
Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy: What's New?

w11799 Bruce A. Weinberg
David W. Galenson

Creative Careers: The Life Cycles of Nobel Laureates in Economics

w11796 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell Salvanes

From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes

w11794 Justine S. Hastings
Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger
Jeffrey M. Weinstein

The Effect of Randomized School Admissions on Voter Participation

w11793 David G. Blanchflower
Jon Wainwright

An Analysis of the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs on Self-Employment in the Construction Industry

w11790 Michael Greenstone
Justin Gallagher

Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program

w11786 Gary Charness
Peter Kuhn

Pay Inequality, Pay Secrecy, and Effort: Theory and Evidence

w11782 David Neumark
Junfu Zhang
Stephen Ciccarella

The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets

w11773 Ann P. Bartel
Casey Ichniowski
Kathryn L. Shaw

How Does Information Technology Really Affect Productivity? Plant-Level Comparisons of Product Innovation, Process Improvement and Worker Skills

w11760 Raj Chetty
Why do Unemployment Benefits Raise Unemployment Durations? Moral Hazard vs. Liquidity

w11759 John F. Heliwell
Haifang Huang

How's the Job? Well-Being and Social Capital in the Workplace

w11729 Nada Eissa
Hilary Hoynes

Behavioral Responses to Taxes: Lessons from the EITC and Labor Supply

w11751 Maria Enchautegui
Richard B. Freeman

Why Don't More Puerto Rican Men Work? The Rich Uncle (Sam) Hypothesis

w11750 Olivier Blanchard
European Unemployment: The Evolution of Facts and Ideas

w11747 Henry Hongbo Jin
Olivia S. Mitchell
John Piggott

Socially Responsible Investment in Japanese Pensions

w11744 Ryan M. Johnson
David H. Reiley
Juan Carlos Munoz

"The War for the Fare": How Driver Compensation Affects Bus System Performance

w11743 David H. Autor
Susan Houseman

Do Temporary Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from 'Work First'

w11742 David Autor
Susan Houseman

Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?

w11740 Eli Berman
David Laitin

Hard Targets: Theory and Evidence on Suicide Attacks

w11726 Olivia S. Mitchell
Stephen P. Utkus
Tongxuan (Stella) Yang

Turning Workers into Savers? Incentives, Liquidity, and Choice in 401(k) Plan Design

w11721 David S. Lee
Training, Wages, and Sample Selection: Estimating Sharp Bounds on Treatment Effects

w11715 David W. Galenson
Do the Young British Artists Rule (or: Has London Stolen the Idea of Postmodern Art from New York?): Evidence from the Auction Market

w11712 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Changing Looks and Changing "Discrimination:" The Beauty of Economists

w11710 Bruce Fallick
Charles A. Fleischmann
James B. Rebitzer

Job Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster

w11694 Neville Francis
Valerie A. Ramey

Measures of Per Capita Hours and their Implications for the Technology-Hours Debate

w11693 Joseph G. Altonji
Emiko Usui

Work Hours, Wages, and Vacation Leave

w11692 Dale T. Mortensen
Eva Nagypal

More on Unemployment and Vacancy Fluctuations

w11689 Robert Shimer
Ivan Werning

Liquidity and Insurance for the Unemployed

w11684 Robert E. Hall
The Labor Market and Macro Volatility: A Nonstationary General-Equilibrium Analysis

w11682 Jeffrey Grogger
Markov Forecasting Methods for Welfare Caseloads

w11681 Hilary Hoynes
Marianne Page
Ann Stevens

Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations

w11679 Steven J. Davis
Luis Rivera-Batiz

The Climate for Business Development and Employment Growth in Puerto Rico

w11678 Robert E. Hall
Job Loss, Job Finding, and Unemployment in the U.S. Economy Over the Past Fifty Years

w11672 Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano
Giovanni Peri

Rethinking the Gains from Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.

w11664 Matthew Gentzkow
Jesse Shapiro

Media Bias and Reputation

w11663 Eli Berman
Laurence R. Iannaccone

Religious Extremism: The Good, The Bad, and The Deadly

w11658 Adriana Kugler
Giovanni Pica

Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

w11647 David Neumark
Junfu Zhang
Brandon Wall

Employment Dynamics and Business Relocation: New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series

w11644 David W. Galenson
Who Are the Greatest Living Artists? The View from the Auction Market

w11636 David Neumark
Donna Rothstein

Do School-To-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?

w11635 Jennifer Hunt
Sonia Laszlo

Bribery: Who Pays, Who Refuses, What Are the Payoffs?

w11629 Jeremy Greenwood
Guillaume Vandenbroucke

Hours Worked: Long-Run Trends

w11628 David H. Autor
Lawrence F. Katz
Melissa S. Kearney

Rising Wage Inequality: The Role of Composition and Prices

w11627 David H. Autor
Lawrence F. Katz
Melissa S. Kearney

Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Re-Assessing the Revisionists

w11626 Marianne P. Bitler
Jonah B. Gelbach
Hilary W. Hoynes

Distributional Impacts of the Self-Sufficiency Project

w11623 Richard B. Freeman
Tanwin Chang
Hanley Chiang

Supporting "The Best and Brightest" in Science and Engineering: NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

w11621 Jeffrey Grogger
Welfare Reform, Returns to Experience, and Wages: Using Reservation Wages to Account for Sample Selection Bias

w11615 Jesse M. Shapiro
Smart Cities: Quality of Life, Productivity, and the Growth Effects of Human Capital

w11610 George J. Borjas
Native Internal Migration and the Labor Market Impact of Immigration

w11605 Amitabh Chandra
Andrew A. Samwick

Disability Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance

w11604 Susan Dynarski
Building the Stock of College-Educated Labor

w11599 Judith Hellerstein
David Neumark

Workplace Segregation in the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Skill

w11598 Davin Chor
Richard B. Freeman

The 2004 Global Labor Survey: Workplace Institutions and Practices Around the World

w11595 Jennifer Hunt
Why Are Some Public Officials more Corrupt Than Others?

w11588 Stephen H. Shore
Todd Sinai

Commitment, Risk, and Consumption: Do Birds of a Feather Have Bigger Nests?

w11587 Philip Oreopoulos
Marianne Page
Ann Huff Stevens

The Intergenerational Effect of Worker Displacement

w11577 Jeffrey R. Kling
Jeffrey B. Liebman
Lawrence F. Katz

Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects

w11576 Rajeev Dehejia
Thomas DeLeire
Erzo F.P. Luttmer

Insuring Consumption and Happiness Through Religious Organizations

w11569 Raquel Fernández
Alessandra Fogli

Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience

w11567 Janet Currie
Enrico Moretti

Biology as Destiny? Short and Long-Run Determinants of Intergenerational Transmission of Birth Weight

w11566 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Joel Slemrod

The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper

w11552 David Card
Ethan G. Lewis

The Diffusion of Mexican Immigrants During the 1990s: Explanations and Impacts

w11547 David Card
Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?

w11545 David W. Galenson
The Methods and Careers of Leading American Painters in the late Nineteenth Century

w11544 James J. Heckman
Lance J. Lochner
Petra E. Todd

Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond

w11527 Robert Fairlie
Christopher Woodruff

Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

w11512 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

Gender and Assimilation Among Mexican Americans

w11501 David W. Galenson
Toward Abstraction: Ranking European Painters of the Early Twentieth Century

w11456 Pablo Ibarraran
Darren Lubotsky

Mexican Immigration and Self-Selection: New Evidence from the 2000 Mexican Census

w11491 David S. Lee
Justin McCrary

Crime, Punishment, and Myopia

w11486 David W. Galenson
Joshua Kotin

Filming Images or Filming Reality: The Life Cycles of Movie Directors from D.W. Griffith to Federico Fellini

w11481 Luojia Hu
Christopher Taber

Layoffs, Lemons, Race, and Gender

w11474 Muriel Niederle
Lise Vesterlund

Do Women Shy Away From Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much?

w11464 Roland G. Fryer
Jr.
Glenn C. Loury

Affirmative Action and Its Mythology

w11457 Richard B. Freeman
Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic Leadership?

w11454 Maria Cancian
Arik Levinson

Labor Supply Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit: Evidence from Wisconsin Supplemental Benefit for Families with Three Children

w11453 Daniel S. Hamermesh
The Value of Peripatetic Economists: A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory

w11451 Paul Beaudry
Patrick Francois

Managerial Skill Acquisition and the Theory of Economic Development

w11443 Lucian Bebchuk
Yaniv Grinstein

The Growth of Executive Pay

w11437 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Liang Zhang
Jared Levin

Crafting A Class: The Trade Off Between Merit Scholarships and Enrolling Lower-Income Students

w11435 Joanna Lahey
Age, Women, and Hiring: An Experimental Study

w11432 Kurt Unger
Regional Economic Development and Mexican Out-Migration

w11428 Susan M. Richter
J. Edward Taylor
Antonio Naude

Impacts of Policy Reforms on Labor Migration From Rural Mexico to the United States

w11423 Brian Duncan
Stephen J. Trejo

Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans

w11416 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald

Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia

w11414 Jorn-Steffen Pischke
Till von Wachter

Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling In Germany: Evidence and Interpretation

w11412 Gordon H. Hanson
Emigration, Labor Supply, and Earnings in Mexico

w11410 Richard B. Freeman
What Do Unions Do?: The 2004 M-Brane Stringtwister Edition

w11405 Kevin M. Murphy
Robert H. Topel

The Value of Health and Longevity

w11394 Orley Ashenfelter
William J. Collins
Albert Yoon

Evaluating the Role of Brown vs. Board of Education in School Equalization, Desegregation, and the Income of African Americans

w11386 Raj Chetty
A General Formula for the Optimal Level of Social Insurance

w11384 Murray Leibbrandt
James Levinsohn
Justin McCrary

Incomes in South Africa Since the Fall of Apartheid

w11377 Jonathan Gruber
Religious Market Structure, Religious Participation, and Outcomes: Is Religion Good for You?

w11350 Antonio Geldson de Carvalho
Charles W. Calomiris
Joao Amaro de Matos

Venture Capital as Human Resource Management

w11347 Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger
Stephanie K. Riegg

School Quality, Neighborhoods and Housing Prices: The Impacts of school Desegregation

w11342 Scott Adams
David Neumark

The Effects of Living Wage Laws: Evidence from Failed and Derailed Living Wage Campaigns

w11338 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald

The Wage Curve Reloaded

w11334 Roland G. Fryer
Jr.
Paul Torelli

An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'

w11331 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman
Lance Lochner
Dimitriy V. Masterov

Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

w11328 Gordon B. Dahl
Early Teen Marriage and Future Poverty

w11324 Joseph P. Ferrie
The End of American Exceptionalism? Mobility in the U.S. Since 1850

w11320 Dalton Conley
Rebecca Glauber

Sibling Similarity and Difference in Socioeconomic Status: Life Course and Family Resource Effects

w11318 Roland G. Fryer
Paul S. Heaton
Steven D. Levitt
Kevin M. Murphy

Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine

w11309 David Card
Enrico Moretti

Does Voting Technology Affect Election Outcomes? Touch-screen Voting and the 2004 Presidential Election

w11304 Cathy J. Bradley
David Neumark
Zhehui Luo
Heather L. Bednarek

Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women: Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer

w11303 Jay Bhattacharya
M. Kate Bundorf

The Incidence of the Healthcare Costs of Obesity

w11298 Richard B. Freeman
From the Webbs to the Web: The Contribution of the Internet to Reviving Union Fortunes

w11295 David M. Cutler
Edward L. Glaeser
Jacob L. Vigdor

Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation

w11286 Richard B. Freeman
Labour Market Institutions Without Blinders: The Debate over Flexibility and Labour Market Performance

w11282 Marie Connolly
Alan B. Krueger

Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music

w11281 George J. Borjas
Lawrence F. Katz

The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States

w11279 Gordon B. Dahl
Lance Lochner

The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement

w11278 Alberto Alesina
Edward L. Glaeser
Bruce Sacerdote

Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe: Why So Different?

w11271 Ivica Dus
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell

Betting on Death and Capital Markets in Retirement: A Shortfall Risk Analysis of Life Annuities

w11270 Cade Massey
Richard Thaler

Overconfidence vs. Market Efficiency in the National Football League

w11268 Raquel Fernandez
Alessandra Fogli

Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility

w11260 Frank F. Furstenberg
Jr.
David Neumark

School-to-Career and Post-Secondary Education: Evidence from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study

w11259 James J. Heckman
Edward Vytlacil

Structural Equations, Treatment Effects and Econometric Policy Evaluation

w11258 Federico Echenique
Roland G. Fryer
Jr.

On the Measurement of Segregation

w11254 Olubunmi Faleye
Vikas Mehrotra
Randall Morck

When Labor Has a Voice in Corporate Governance

w11248 Li Gan
Qinghua Zhang

The Thick Market Effect on Local Unemployment Rate Fluctuations

w11245 Robert E. Hall
Paul R. Milgrom

The Limited Influence of Unemployment on the Wage Bargain

w11240 June E. O'Neill
Dave M. O'Neill

What Do Wage Differentials Tell Us about Labor Market Discrimination?

w11239 Robert A. Pollak
Bargaining Power in Marriage: Earnings, Wage Rates and Household Production

w11230 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000

w11219 Joshua D. Angrist
Adriana Kugler

Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia

w11217 George J. Borjas
The Labor Market Impact of High-Skill Immigration

w11213 Suzanne Scotchmer
Affirmative Action in Hierarchies

w11211 Stefano DellaVigna
Joshua M. Pollet

Attention, Demographics, and the Stock Market

w11207 Chulhee Lee
Health, Information, and Migration: Geographic Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1860-1880

w11204 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson
Pierre Yared

From Education to Democracy?

w11201 Daron Acemoglu
Asuman Ozdaglar

Competition and Efficiency in Congested Markets

w11189 Orley Ashenfelter
Gordon B. Dahl

Strategic Bargaining Behavior, Self-Serving Biases, and the Role of Expert Agents: An Empirical Study of Final-Offer Arbitration

w11186 Robert E. Hall
The Amplification of Unemployment Fluctuations through Self-Selection

w11183 Robert E. Hall
Employment Efficiency and Sticky Wages: Evidence from Flows in the Labor Market

w11160 Katherine Baicker
Amitabh Chandra

The Labor Market Effects of Rising Health Insurance Premiums

w11159 Casey B. Mulligan
Yona Rubinstein

Selection, Investment, and Women's Relative Wages Since 1975

w11158 Ann Bartel
Saul Lach
Nachum Sicherman

Outsourcing and Technological Change

w11152 David W. Galenson
Anticipating Artistic Success (or, How to Beat the Art Market): Lessons from History

w11143 Chor-ching Goh
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik

Trade Protection and Industry Wage Structure in Poland

w11142 James J. Heckman
Lessons from the Technology of Skill Formation

w11135 Michael Baker
Kevin Milligan

How Does Job-Protected Maternity Leave Affect Mothers' Employment and Infant Health?

w11108 Nada Wasi
Michelle J. White

Property Tax Limitations and Mobility: The Lock-in Effect of California's Proposition 13

w11094 Pol Antràs
Luis Garicano
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy

w11090 Derek Neal
Why Has Black-White Skill Convergence Stopped?

w11074 Gabriel D. Carroll
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte Madrian
Andrew Metrick

Optimal Defaults and Active Decisions

w11063 Dana Goldman
Neeraj Sood
Arleen Leibowitz

Wage and Benefit Changes in Response to Rising Health Insurance Costs

w11050 Claudio Michelacci
Vincenzo Quadrini

Financial Markets and Wages

w11049 Roland G. Fryer
Steven D. Levitt

The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade

w11032 James J. Heckman
Dimitriy V. Masterov

Allander Series: Skill Policies for Scotland

w11031 Lalith Munasinghe
Nachum Sicherman

Wage Dynamics and Unobserved Heterogeneity: Time Preference of Learning Ability?

w11024 Flavio Cunha
James J. Heckman
Salvador Navarro

Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings

w11019 Patrick Bayer
Stephen Ross
Giorgio Topa

Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes


2004
w10980 Kathleen Beegle
Rajeev Dehejia
Roberta Gatti

Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor

w10956 Josh Lerner
Jean Tirole

The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond

w10947 Nicola Persico
Petra Todd

Using Hit Rate Tests to Test for Racial Bias in Law Enforcement: Vehicle Searches in Wichita

w10935 Nada Eissa
Henrik Jacobsen Kleven
Claus Thustrup Kreiner

Evaluation of Four Tax Reforms in the United States: Labor Supply and Welfare Effects for Single Mothers

w10919 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Michael Moore

The Effect of Improvements in Health and Longevity on Optimal Retirement and Saving

w10918 Janice Compton
Robert A. Pollak

Why Are Power Couples Increasingly Concentrated in Large Metropolitan Areas

w10911 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereaux
Kjell Salvanes

Fast Times at Ridgemont High? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births

w10905 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

The social Security Retirement Earnings Test, Retirement and Benefit Claiming

w10892 Casey B. Mulligan
Yona Rubinstein

The Closing of the Gender Gap as a Roy Model Illusion

w10885 David W. Galenson
One Hit Wonders: Why Some of the Most Important Works of Modern Art are Not by Important Artists

w10882 Olivia S. Mitchell
John Piggott
Satoshi Shimizutani

Aged-Care Support in Japan: Perspectives and Challenges

w10876 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Minimum Hours Constraints, Job Requirements and Retirement

w10861 Jeff DeSimone
Edward J. Schumacher

Compensating Wage Differentials and AIDS Risk

w10853 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

The US Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence

w10844 Eric D. Gould
Victor Lavy
M. Daniele Paserman

Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

w10837 Stefano DellaVigna
M. Daniele Paserman

Job Search and Impatience

w10819 Stefano DellaVigna
Ulrike Malmendier

Overestimating Self_Control: Evidence from the Health Club Industry

w10817 David E. Bloom
David Canning

Global Demographic Change: Dimensions and Economic Significance

w10815 Li Gan
Qi Li

Efficiency of Thin and Thick Markets

w10810 Courtney C. Coile
Health Shocks and Couples' Labor Supply Decisions

w10809 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Stephen G. Donald

The Effect of College Curriculum on Earnings: Accounting for Non-Ignorable Non-Response Bias

w10808 Mary Amiti
Shang-Jin Wei

Fear of Service Outsourcing: Is It Justified?

w10807 Ulrike Malmendier
Geoffrey Tate

CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Investment

w10779 Courtney C. Coile
Phillip B. Levine

Bulls, Bears, and Retirement Behavior

w10772 Jeremy Greenwood
Nezih Guner

Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households

w10763 David H. Autor
David Scarborough

Will Job Testing Harm Minority Workers?

w10744 Ricardo J. Caballero
Kevin N. Cowan
Eduardo M.R.A. Engel
Alejandro Micco

Effective Labor Regulation and Microeconomic Flexibility

w10740 Christine Jolls
J.J. Prescott

Disaggregating Employment Protection: The Case of Disability Discrimination

w10739 Brian Jacob
Lars Lefgren
Enrico Moretti

The Dynamics of Criminal Behavior: Evidence from Weather Shocks

w10735 Jorn-Steffen Pischke
Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment

w10728 Aimee Chin
Chinhui Juhn
Peter Thompson

Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1865-1912

w10720 Sandra E. Black
Paul G. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Composition on Children's Education

w10714 Leora Friedberg
Michael Owyang

Explaining the Evolution of Pension Structure and Job Tenure

w10711 Eric A. Hanushek
Charles Ka Yui Leung
Kuzey Yilmaz

Borrowing Constraints, College Aid, and Intergenerational Mobility

w10708 Christine Jolls
The Role and Functioning of Public-Interest Legal Organizations in the Enforcement of the Employment Laws

w10695 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Liang Zhang

Do Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Matter?

w10684 Stephen Donald
Daniel S. Hamermesh

What is Discrimination? Gender in the American Economic Association

w10682 Assaf Razin
Efraim Sadka

Welfare Migration: Is the Net Fiscal Burden a Good Measure of Its Economic Impact on the Welfare of the Native Born Population?

w10680 Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

w10678 Victor Lavy
Do Gender Stereotypes Reduce Girls' Human Capital Outcomes? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

w10670 David Blau
Janet Currie

Preschool, Day Care, and Afterschool Care: Who's Minding the Kids?

w10663 Olivier Deschenes
Michael Greenstone

The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Profits and Random

w10656 David Neumark
Olena Nizalova

Minimum Wage Effects in the Longer Run

w10655 Richard Rogerson
Robert Shimer
Randall Wright

Search-Theoretic Models of the Labor Market-A Survey

w10647 David Card
Dean R. Hyslop

Estimating the Effects of a Time Limited Earnings Subsidy for Welfare Leavers

w10633 Jennifer Hunt
Are Migrants More Skilled than Non-Migrants? Repeat, Return and Same-Employer Migrants

w10622 Victor Lavy
Performance Pay and Teachers' Effort, Productivity and Grading Ethics

w10621 Martha J. Bailey
William J. Collins

The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s

w10618 Alexander Haupt
Eckhard Janeba

Education, Redistribution, and the Threat of Brain Drain

w10632 Sean Nicholson
Marc V. Pauly
Daniel Polsky
Claire Sharda
Helena Szrek

Measuring the Effects of Workloss on Productivity With Team Production

w10608 Jayanta Bhattacharya
Janet Currie
Steven Haider

Breakfast of Champions? The School Breakfast Program and the Nutrition of Children and Families

w10598 John DiNardo
David S. Lee

Economic Impacts of Unionization on Private Sector Employers: 1984-2001

w10593 Pinelopi K. Goldberg
Nina Pavcnik

Trade, Inequality, and Poverty: What Do We Know? Evidence from Recent Trade Liberalization Episodes in Developing Countries

w10590 Olivier Blanchard
Thomas Philippon

The Quality of Labor Relations and Unemployment

w10589 Raquel Fernandez
Alessandra Fogli
Claudia Olivetti

Preference Formation and the Rise of Women's Labor Force Participation: Evidence from WWII

w10575 Victor Lavy
Analia Schlosser

Targeted Remedial Education for Under-Performing Teenagers: Costs and Benefits

w10562 Scott Adams
David Neumark

The Economic Effects of Living Wage Laws: A Provisional Review

w10561 Scott Adams
David Neumark

When Do Living Wages Bite?

w10558 Casey Mulligan
Andrei Shleifer

Conscription as Regulation

w10554 Richard B. Freeman
Emily Jin
Chia-Yu Shen

Where Do New US-Trained Science-Engineering PhDs come from?

w10543 Daniel Bergstresser
Mihir A. Desai
Joshua Rauh

Earnings Manipulation and Managerial Investment Decisions: Evidence from Sponsored Pension Plans

w10542 Sean Nicholson
How Much Do Medical Students Know About Physician Income?

w10541 Thomas Lemieux
Kevin Milligan

Incentive Effects of Social Assistance: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

w10531 Steven G. Allen
The Value of Phased Retirement

w10529 Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson

International Migration in the Long-Run: Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

w10528 Christine Jolls
Identifying the Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act Using State-Law Variation: Preliminary Evidence on Educational Participation Effects

w10527 Andrew Postlewaite
Larry Samuelson
Dan Silverman

Consumption, Commitmants and Preferences for Risk

w10522 Nicola Persico
Andrew Postlewaite
Dan Silverman

The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height

w10515 David W. Galenson
A Portrait of the Artist as a Very Young or Very Old Innovator: Creativity at the Extremes of the Life Cycle

w10510 Jennifer Hunt
Trust and Bribery: The Role of the Quid Pro Quo and the Link with Crime

w10509 Steven J. Davis
Magnus Henrekson

Tax Effects on Work Activity, Industry Mix and Shadow Economy Size: Evidence from Rich-Country Comparisons

w10508 John Cawley
Sheldon Danziger

Obesity as a Barrier to the Transition from Welfare to Work

w10507 Peter Cappelli
Monika Hamori

The Path to the Top: Changes in the Attributes and Careers of Corporate Executives, 1980-2001

w10505 Hanno Lustig
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

How Much Does Household Collateral Constrain Regional Risk Sharing?

w10500 Raj Chetty
Optimal Unemployment Insurance When Income Effects are Large

w10494 Raghuram Rajan
Julie Wulf

Are Perks Purely Managerial Excess?

w10493 William J. Collins
Robert A. Margo

The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots: Evidence from Property Values

w10492 Ann Harrison
Jason Scorse

Moving Up or Moving Out? Anti-Sweatshop Activists and Labor Market Outcomes

w10488 Janet Currie
The Take Up of Social Benefits

w10486 James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian

Plan Design and 401(k) Savings Outcomes

w10478 Lance Lochner
Education, Work, and Crime: A Human Capital Approach

w10469 Gadi Barlevy
Daniel Tsiddon

Earnings Inequality and the Business Cycle

w10467 Marc T. Law
Sukkoo Kim

Specialization and Regulation: The Rise of Professionals and the Emergence of Occupational Licensing Regulation

w10459 Erdal Tekin
Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers

w10428 Joshua Angrist
Victor Chernozhukov
Ivan Fernandez-Val

Quantile Regression under Misspecification, with an Application to the U.S. Wage Structure

w10421 Gary V. Engelhardt
Brigitte C. Madrian

Employee Stock Purchase Plans

w10419 Jeffrey R. Brown
Nellie Liang
Scott Weisbenner

401(k) Matching Contributions in Company Stock: Costs and Benefits for Firms and Workers

w10401 Orley Ashenfelter
Michael Greenstone

Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life: The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias

w10399 Wojciech Kopczuk
Emmanuel Saez

Top Wealth Shares in the United States: 1916-2000: Evidence from Estate Tax Returns

w10398 Ricardo J. Caballlero
Eduardo Engel
Alejandro Micco

Microeconomic Flexibility in Latin America

w10383 Sara G. Castellanos
Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu
David S. Kaplan

Nominal Wage Rigidities in Mexico: Evidence from Social Security Records

w10382 Helen Levy
Employer-Sponsored Disability Insurance: Where are the Gaps in Coverage?

w10368 Ricardo J. Caballero
Eduardo M.R.A. Engel

Three Strikes and You're Out: Reply to Cooper and Willis

w10366 David Card
Alan B. Krueger

Would the Elimination of Affirmative Action Affect Highly Qualified Minority Applicants? Evidence from California and Texas

w10361 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Subjective Outcomes in Economics

w10350 Rachel M. Hayes
Paul Oyer
Scott Schaefer

Co-Worker Complemetarity and the Stability of Top Management Teams

w10349 George J. Borjas
Do Foreign Students Crowd Out Native Students from Graduate Programs?

w10347 Dirk Krueger
Jessica Tjornhom Donohue

On the Distributional Consequences of Child Labor Legislation

w10335 Claudia Goldin
From the Valley to the Summit: The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women's Work

w10331 Claudia Goldin
The Long Road to the Fast Track: Career and Family

w10339 Kohei Komamura
Atsuhiro Yamada

Who Bears the Burden of Social Insurance?

w10325 Judith K. Hellerstein
David Neumark

Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogeneous Labor: Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

w10320 Casey B. Mulligan
Yona Rubinstein

Household vs. Personal Accounts of the U.S. Labor Market, 1965-2000

w10317 Eric Edmonds
Nina Pavcnik

International Trade and Child Labor: Cross-Country Evidence

w10305 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Personal Accounts and Family Retirement

w10297 Russel W. Cooper
John C. Haltiwanger
Jonathan Willis

Dynamics of Labor Demand: Evidence from Plant-level Observations and Aggregate Implications

w10286 David G. Blanchflower
Self-Employment: More may not be better

w10283 Jeremy Lise
Shannon Seitz
Jeffrey Smith

Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs

w10281 Gordon B. Dahl
Enrico Moretti

The Demand for Sons: Evidence from Divorce, Fertility, and Shotgun Marriage

w10274 Erdal Tekin
Single Mothers Working at Night: Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform

w10269 Andrei Shleifer
Does Competition Destroy Ethical Behavior?

w10257 Steven Haider
Melvin Stephens Jr.

Is There a Retirement-Consumption Puzzle? Evidence Using Subjective Retirement Expectations

w10256 Muriel Niederle
Alvin E. Roth

Market Culture: How Norms Governing Exploding Offers Affect Market Performance

w10243 William J. Collins
Robert A. Margo

The Labor Market Effects of the 1960s Riots

w10229 Eric A. Hanushek
Some Simple Analytics of School Quality

w10222 Paul Oyer
Scott Schaefer

Why Do Some Firms Give Stock Options to All Employees?: An Empirical Examination of Alternative Theories

w10221 Paul Oyer
Scott Schaefer

Compensating Employees Below the Executive Ranks: A Comparison of Options, Restricted Stock, and Cash

w10219 Hugo Benitez-Silva
Moshe Buchinsky
John Rust

How Large are the Classification Errors in the Social Security Disability Award Process?

w10215 Adriana Kugler
The Effect of Job Security Regulations on Labor Market Flexibility: Evidence from the Colombian Labor Market Reform

w10213 David W. Galenson
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young or Old Innovator: Measuring the Careers of Modern Novelists

w10211 Raj Chetty
Consumption Commitments, Unemployment Durations, and Local Risk Aversion

w10199 Joseph E. Aldy
W. Kip Viscusi

Age Variations in Workers' Value of Statistical Life


2003
w10192 Edward P. Lazear
Paul Oyer

Internal and External Labor Markets: A Personnel Economics Approach

w10186 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Jungmin Lee

Stressed Out on Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch?

w10185 Sewin Chan
Ann Huff Stevens

What You Don't Know Can't Help You: Pension Knowledge and Retirement Decision Making

w10177 Douglas Kruse
Richard Freeman
Joseph Blasi
Robert Buchele
Adria Scharf

Motivating Employee-Owners in ESOP Firms: Human Resource Policies and Company Performance

w10175 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: Divorce Laws and Family Distress

w10174 Johannes Van Biesebroeck
Wages Equal Productivity: Fact or Fiction?

w10164 Philip Oreopoulos
Marianne E. Page
Ann Huff Stevens

Does Human Capital Transfer from Parent to Child? The Intergenerational Effects of Compulsory Schooling

w10155 Philip Oreopoulos
Do Dropouts Drop Out Too Soon? International Evidence From Changes in School-Leaving Laws

w10146 Gadi Barlevy
Estimating Models of On-the-Job Search Using Record Statistics

w10129 James Heckman
Carmen Pages

Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean

w10121 Marianne Bitler
Jonah Gelbach
Hilary Hoynes

What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments

w10118 Kenneth Y. Chay
Patrick J. McEwan
Miguel Urquiola

The Central Role of Noise in Evaluating Interventions that Use Test Scores to Rank Schools

w10112 Katharine Abraham
Melissa A. Clark

Financial Aid and Students' College Decisions: Evidence from the District of Columbia's Tuition Assistance Grant Program

w10106 Andres Almazan
Adolfo de Motta
Sheridan Titman

Firm Location and the Creation and Utilization of Human Capital

w10104 Roland G. Fryer
Glenn C. Loury

Categorical Redistribution in Winner-Take-All Markets

w10103 Roland Fryer
Glenn C. Loury
Tolga Yuret

Color-Blind Affirmative Action

w10100 David M. Blau
Donna B. Gilleskie

The Role of Retiree Health Insurance in the Employment Behavior of Older Men

w10088 Kathleen Beegle
Rajeev Dehejia
Roberta Gatti

Child Labor, Crop Shocks, and Credit Constraints

w10081 Reuben Gronau
Zvi Griliches' Contribution to the Theory of Human Capital

w10077 Mauricio Cardenas
Raquel Bernal

Determinants of Labor Demand in Colombia: 1976-1996

w10075 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence Katz

Mass Secondary Schooling and the State

w10068 Pedro Carneiro
James J. Heckman
Dimitriy V. Masterov

Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors

w10066 Sandra E. Black
Paul J. Devereux
Kjell G. Salvanes

Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

w10056 Wouter Dessein
Tano Santos

The Demand for Coordination

w10043 Patricia M. Anderson
Bruce D. Meyer

Unemployment Insurance Tax Burdens and Benefits: Funding Family Leave and Reforming the Payroll Tax

w10030 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Retirement Effects of Proposals by the President's Commision to Strengthen Social Security

w10021 Paul Flatau
Matt Forbes
Patric H. Hendershott

Homeownership and Unemployment: The Roles of Leverage and Public Housing

w10014 Justin Wolfers
Did Unilateral Divorce Laws Raise Divorce Rates? A Reconciliation and New Results

w10008 Chang-Tai Hsieh
Miguel Urquiola

When Schools Compete, How Do They Compete? An Assessment of Chile's Nationwide School Voucher Program

w10006 Russell W. Cooper
Jonathan Willis

The Cost of Labor Adjustment: Inferences from the Gap

w10004 Eli Berman
Hamas, Taliban and the Jewish Underground: An Economist's View of Radical Religious Militias

w10000 Richard B. Freeman
Trade Wars: The Exaggerated Impact of Trade in Economic Debate

w9999 Leora Friedberg
Anthony Webb

Retirement and the Evolution of Pension Structure

w9997 Nicholas Barberis
Ming Huang
Richard Thaler

Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles and the Equity Premium

w9987 Ann Bartel
Richard Freeman
Casey Ichniowski
Morris M. Kleiner

Can a Work Organization Have an Attitude Problem? The Impact of Workplaces on Employee Attitudes and Economic Outcomes

w9973 David G. Blanchflower
Alex Bryson

What Effect do Unions Have on Wages Now and Would 'What Do Unions Do' Be Surprised?

w9967 Robert E. Hall
Wage Determination and Employment Fluctuations

w9964 Jorn-Steffen Pischke
The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German Short School Year

w9958 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The "Virtues" of the Past: Education in the First Hundred Years of the New Republic

w9950 Ajay Agrawal
Iain Cockburn
John McHale

Gone But Not Forgotten: Labor Flows, Knowledge Spillovers, and Enduring Social Capital

w9938 Roland G. Fryer
Steven D. Levitt

The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names

w9935 David W. Galenson
The Reappearing Masterpiece: Ranking American Artists and Art Works of the Late Twentieth Century

w9934 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson

Unbundling Institutions

w9918 Hope Corman
Nancy E. Reichman
Kelly Noonan

Mothers' and Fathers' Labor Supply in Fragile Families: The Role of Child Health

w9911 Kevin Lang
Sumon Majumdar

The Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear: Theory and Implications

w9910 Ivar Ekeland
James J. Heckman
Lars P. Nesheim

Identification and Estimation of Hedonic Models

w9904 David Austen-Smith
Roland G. Fryer

The Economics of 'Acting White'

w9898 Ricardo J. Caballero
Eduardo Engel

Adjustment is Much Slower than You Think

w9896 Richard B. Freeman
What, Me Vote?

w9895 James J. Heckman
Rosa Matzkin
Lars Nesheim

Simulation and Estimation of Nonaddative Hedonic Models

w9887 Brian J. Hall
Six Challenges in Designing Equity-Based Pay

w9879 Rana Hasan
Devashish Mitra
K.V. Ramaswamy

Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations and Labor-Demand Elasticities: Empirical Evidence from India

w9878 Donald Boyd
Hamilton Lankford
Susanna Loeb
James Wyckoff

Analyzing the Determinants of the Matching Public School Teachers to Jobs: Estimating Compensating Differentials in Imperfect Labor Markets

w9877 James J. Heckman
Xuesong Li

Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education

w9873 Marianne Bertrand
Sendhil Mullainathan

Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination

w9868 Chiaki Moriguchi
Did American Welfare Capitalists Breach their Implicit Contracts? Preliminary Findings from Company-level Data, 1920-1940

w9857 Joshua L. Rosenbloom
William A. Sundstrom

The Decline and Rise of Interstate Migration in the United States: Evidence from the IPUMS, 1850-1990

w9856 David W. Galenson
Literary Life Cycles: The Careers of Modern American Poets

w9853 Daniel Hamermesh
Amy M. Parker

Beauty in the Classroom: Professors' Pulchritude and Putative Pedagogical Productivity

w9852 Louis Kaplow
The Value of a Statistical Life and the Coefficient of Relative Risk Aversion

w9851 David Neumark
Elizabeth T. Powers

The Effects of Changes in State SSI Supplements on Pre-Retirement Labor Supply

w9850 Claudio Montenegro
Carmen Pages

Who Benefits from Labor Market Regulations? Chile 1960-1998

w9849 Robert Gibbons
Michael Waldman

Enriching a Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics Inside Firms

w9830 Orazio Attanasio
Pinelopi Goldberg
Nina Pavcnik

Trade Reforms and Wage Inequiality in Colombia

w9819 Lawrence J. Christiano
Martin Eichenbaum
Robert Vigfusson

What Happens After a Technology Shock?

w9818 James J. Heckman
Jeffrey A. Smith

The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program

w9813 Lucian Arye Bebchuk
Jesse M. Fried

Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem

w9802 Daron Acemoglu
Michael Kremer
Atif Mian

Incentives in Markets, Firms and Governments

w9800 William F. Maloney
Jairo Nunez Mendez

Measuring the Impact of Minimum Wages: Evidence from Latin America

w9788 Anne Case
Angela Fertig
Christina Paxson

From Cradle to Grave? The Lasting Impact of Childhood Health and Circumstance

w9785 Jan Boone
Lans Bovenberg

The Optimal Taxation of Unskilled Labor with Job Search and Social Assistance

w9784 Brian J. Hall
Kevin J. Murphy

The Trouble with Stock Options

w9782 Michael Baker
Emily Hanna
Jasmin Kantarevic

The Married Widow: Marriage Penalties Matter!

w9781 George J. Borjas
Welfare Reform, Labor Supply, and Health Insurance in the Immigrant Population

w9779 Steven G. Allen
Robert L. Clark
Linda S. Ghent

Phasing Into Retirement

w9770 William J. Collins
Robert A. Margo

Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

w9766 Alexandra Cox Edwards
Manuelita Ureta

International Migration, Remittances, and Schooling: Evidence from El Salvador

w9760 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption

w9756 Simeon Djankov
Rafael La Porta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silane
Andrei Shleifer
Juan Botero

The Regulation of Labor

w9755 George J. Borjas
The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market

w9732 James J. Heckman
Lance J. Lochner
Petra E. Todd

Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions

w9722 Patrick Bolton
Jose Scheinkman
Wei Xiong

Executive Compensation and Short-termist Behavior in Speculative Markets

w9716 Vanessa Strauss-Kahn
The Role of Globalization in the Within-Industry Shift Away from Unskilled Workers in France

w9708 Joshua D. Angrist
Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice

w9707 Henry Farber
Job Loss in the United States, 1981-2001

w9706 Henry Farber
Is Tomorrow Another Day? The Labor Supply of New York Cab Drivers

w9705 Henry Farber
Nonunion Wage Rates and the Threat of Unionization

w9702 Scott Adams
David Neumark

Living Wage Effects: New and Improved Evidence

w9693 Ann Dryden Witte
Magaly Queralt

Impacts of Eligibility Expansions and Provider Reimbursement Rate Increases on Child Care Subsidy Take-Up Rates, Welfare Use and Work

w9688 Kosali Ilayperuma Simon
Robert Kaestner

Do Minimum Wages Affect Non-wage Job Attributes? Evidence on Fringe Benefits and Working Conditions

w9679 Edward P. Lazear
Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach

w9669 Drusilla K. Brown
Alan V. Deardorff
Robert M. Stern

The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries

w9650 Reuben Gronau
Daniel S. Hamermesh

Time Vs. Goods: The Value of Measuring Household Production Technologies

w9646 Kazuo Ogawa
Financial Distress and Employment: The Japanese Case in the 90s

w9633 Raghuram Rajan
Julie Wulf

The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies

w9632 Jennifer Hunt
Teen Births Keep American Crime High

w9628 Donna K. Ginther
Robert A. Pollak

Does Family Structure Affect Children's Educational Outcomes?

w9619 Justin Wolfers
Is Business Cycle Volatility Costly? Evidence from Surveys of Subjective Wellbeing

w9594 Sukkoo Kim
Robert A. Margo

Historical Perspectives on U.S. Economic Geography

w9591 Joni Hersch
A Workers' Lobby to Provide Portable Benefits

w9590 Eileen Appelbaum
Larry W. Hunter

Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations

w9585 John Kennan
James R. Walker

The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions

w9579 Roland G. Fryer
Jr.
Matthew O. Jackson

Categorical Cognition: A Psychological Model of Categories and Identification in Decision Making

w9576 John Van Reenen
Active Labour Market Policies and the British New Deal for the Young Unemployed in Context

w9573 Rachel Griffith
Helen Simpson

Characteristics of Foreign-Owned Firms in British Manufacturing

w9569 Sandra E. Black
Lisa Lynch
Anya Krivelyova

How Workers Fare When Employers Innovate

w9565 David Weil
Individual Rights and Collective Agents: The Role of Old and New Workplace Institution in the Regulation of Labor Markets

w9564 John Pencavel
The Surprising Retreat of Union Britain

w9563 Gordon H. Hanson
What Has Happened to Wages in Mexico since NAFTA?

w9556 Richard Disney
Carl Emmerson
Sarah Smith

Pension Reform and Economic Performance in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s

w9550 Chulhee Lee
Labor Market Status of Older Males in the United States, 1880-1940

w9546 Pedro Carneiro
Karsten T. Hansen
James J. Heckman

Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College

w9545 Joshua D. Angrist
Jonathan Guryan

Does Teacher Testing Raise Teacher Quality? Evidence from State Certification Requirements

w9539 David W. Galenson
The Life Cycles of Modern Artists: Theory, Measurement, and Implications

w9537 Kevin Lang
The Effect of the Payroll Tax on Earnings: A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination

w9532 John J. Donohue III
Steven D. Levitt

Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce

w9524 Alan B. Krueger
Alexandre Mas

Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

w9508 Melvin Stephens
Jr.

Job Loss Expectations, Realizations, and Household Consumption Behavior

w9497 James J. Heckman
Salvador Navarro-Lozano

Using Matching, Instrumental Variables and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models

w9496 Courtney Coile
Retirement Incentives and Couples' Retirement Decisions

w9495 James Heckman
Pedro Carneiro

Human Capital Policy

w9484 Hiroshi Ono
Marcus E. Rebick

Constraints on the Level and Efficient Use of Labor in Japan

w9476 Amitabh Chandra
Is the Convergence of the Racial Wage Gap Illusory?

w9474 Lance Lochner
Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System

w9473 David Card
Thomas Lemieux
W. Craig Riddell

Unionization and Wage Inequality: A Comparative Study of the U.S, the U.K., and Canada

w9472 Jeffrey Grogger
Welfare Transitions in the 1990s: The Economy, Welfare Policy, and the EITC

w9467 C. Nicholas McKinney
Muriel Niederle
Alvin E. Roth

The collapse of a medical clearinghouse (and why such failures are rare)

w9455 Michael Baker
Jonathan Gruber
Kevin Milligan

Simulating the Response to Reform of Canada's Income Security Programs

w9449 Steven D. Levitt
Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link"

w9440 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Routine

w9429 Bradley T. Heim
Bruce D. Meyer

Work Costs and Nonconvex Preferences in the Estimation of Labor Supply Models

w9428 Janet Currie
Mehdi Farsi
W. Bentley MacLeod

Cut to the Bone? Hospital Takeovers and Nurse Employment Contracts

w9425 David H. Autor
John J. Donohue III
Stewart J. Schwab

The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws


2002
w9407 Jonathan Gruber
David A. Wise

Social Security Programs and Retirement Around the World: Micro Estimation

w9404 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Retirement and the Stock Market Bubble

w9395 David Blanchflower
Alex Bryson

Changes over time in union relative wage effects in the UK and the US revisited

w9389 Joshua D. Angrist
Victor Lavy

The Effect of High School Matriculation Awards: Evidence from Randomized Trials

w9360 Janet Currie
Enrico Moretti

Mother's Education and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from College Openings and Longitudinal Data

w9356 Melvin Stephens Jr.
Paycheck Receipt and the Timing of Consumption

w9338 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
Jane Waldfogel

The Impact of Welfare Benefits on Single Motherhood and Headship of Young Women: Evidence from the Census

w9314 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Erik Hurst

The Correlation of Welath Across Generations

w9313 George J. Borjas
The Wage Structure and the Sorting of Workers into the Public Sector

w9310 Sandra E. Black
Amir Sufi

Who Goes to College? Differential Enrollment by Race and Family Background

t0284 James H. Stock
Motohiro Yogo

Testing for Weak Instruments in Linear IV Regression

w9296 James J. Heckman
China's Investment in Human Capital

w9265 T. Huw Edwards
John Whalley

Short and Long Run Decompositions of OECD Wage Inequality Changes

w9263 Joshua D. Angrist
Kevin Lang

How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program

w9254 Richard B. Freeman
The Labour Market in the New Information Economy

w9250 Olivia S. Mitchell
Stephen P. Utkus

The Role of Company Stock in Defined Contribution Plans

w9242 Daniel Chiquiar
Gordon H. Hanson

International Migration, Self-Selection, and the Distribution of Wages: Evidence from Mexico and the United States

w9240 Paul Beaudry
Fabrice Collard
David A. Green

Decomposing the Twin-peaks in the World Distribution of Output-per-worker

w9236 George J. Borjas
Food Insecurity and Public Assistance

w9234 Raquel Fernandez
Alessandra Fogli
Claudia Olivetti

Marrying Your Mom: Preference Transmission and Women's Labor and Education Choices

w9232 Robert A. Pollak
Gary Becker's Contributions to Family and Household Economics

w9228 David M. Linsenmeier
Harvey S. Rosen
Cecilia Elena Rouse

Financial Aid Packages and College Enrollment Decisions: An Econometric Case Study

w9227 Bruce Sacerdote
Slavery and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

w9226 William M. Gentry
R. Glenn Hubbard

The Effects of Progressive Income Taxation on Job Turnover

w9225 Peter Cappelli
Why Do Employers Pay For College?

w9202 Dirk Krueger
Fabrizio Perri

Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality? Evidence and Theory

w9199 Joseph Stiglitz
Jungyoll Yun

Integration of Unemployment Insurance with Retirement Insurance

w9194 James J. Heckman
Flexibility and Job Creation: Lessons for Germany

w9184 Lisandro Abrego
John Whalley

Decomposing Wage Inequality Change Using General Equilibrium Models

w9183 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

The Social Security Early Entitlement Age in a Structural Model of Retirement and Wealth

w9168 Robert Moffitt
Welfare Programs and Labor Supply

w9155 John Bound
Julie Berry Cullen
Austin Nichols
Lucie Schmidt

The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity

w9153 Edward L. Glaeser
Bruce I. Sacerdote
Jose A. Scheinkman

The Social Multiplier

w9149 David Galenson
The New York School vs. the School of Paris: Who Really Made the Most Important Art After World War II?

w9148 Jonathan Gruber
Jeffrey Kubik

Health Insurance Coverage and the Disability Insurance Application Decision

w9140 Michael D. Hurd
James P. Smith
Julie M. Zissimopoulos

The Effects of Subjective Survival on Retirement and Social Security Claiming

w9135 Melvin Stephens Jr.
'3rd of tha Month': Do Social Security Recipients Smooth Consumption Between Checks?

w9133 Derek Neal
The Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Women is Too Small

w9125 Wayne B. Gray
Ronald J. Shadbegian

Optimal Pollution Abatement - Whose Benefits Matter, and How Much?

w9123 David W. Galenson
Robert Jensen

Careers and Canvases: The Rise of the Market for Modern Art in the Nineteenth Century

w9119 Wayne B. Gray
John Mendeloff

The Declining Effects of OSHA Inspections on Manufacturing Injuries: 1979 to 1998

w9110 Sandra E. Black
Elizabeth Brainerd

Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination

w9109 Edward P. Lazear
Entrepreneurship

w9099 Robert A. Pollak
An Intergenerational Model of Domestic Violence

w9094 Orley Ashenfelter
Michael Greenstone

Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life

w9083 James Heckman
Lance Lochner
Ricardo Cossa

Learning-By-Doing Vs. On-the-Job Training: Using Variation Induced by the EITC to Distinguish Between Models of Skill Formation

w9081 Michael W. Klein
Work and Play: International Evidence of Gender Equality in Employment and Sports

w9074 Alan B. Krueger
Jitka Maleckova

Education, Poverty, Political Violence and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?

w9071 Eric A. Hanushek
The Long Run Importance of School Quality

w9068 Lucian Arye Bebchuk
Jesse M. Fried
David I. Walker

Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation

w9059 Brian J. Hall
Thomas A. Knox

Managing Option Fragility

w9055 Pedro Carneiro
James J. Heckman

The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling

w9051 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
Joan Y. Moriarty
Andre Portela Souza

The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Labor-Market Activity: Evidence from the United States

w9045 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

The New Social Security Commission Personal Accounts: Where Is the Investment Principal?

w9044 Sarah E. Turner
John Bound

Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide: The Effects of the G.I. Bill and World War II on the Educational Outcomes of Black Americans

w9043 Giuseppe Bertola
Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

Labor Market Institutions and Demographic Employment Patterns

w9041 Kerwin Charles
Patrick Kline

Relational Costs and the Production of Social Capital: Evidence from Carpooling

w9037 Judith K. Hellerstein
David Neumark

Ethnicity, Language, and Workplace Segregation: Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

w9033 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Is Retirement Depressing?: Labor Force Inactivity and Psychological Well-Being in Later Life

w9028 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Ming-Ching Luoh

Gender Differences in Completed Schooling

w9025 Peter Arcidiacono
Sean Nicholson

Peer Effects in Medical School

w9021 Phillip B. Levine
The Impact of Social Policy and Economic Activity Throughout the Fertility Decision Tree

w9018 Rajeev Dehejia
Roberta Gatti

Child Labor: The Role of Income Variability and Access to Credit Across Countries

w9014 Alan B. Krueger
Bruce D. Meyer

Labor Supply Effects of Social Insurance

w9013 Daron Acemoglu
David H. Autor
David Lyle

Women, War and Wages: The Effect of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Mid-Century

w9003 Jayanta Bhattacharya
Steven Haider
Janet Currie

Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy

w9002 James Heckman
Carolyn Heinrich
Jeffrey Smith

The Performance of Performance Standards

w8999 John H. Coatsworth
Jeffrey G. Williamson

The Roots of Latin American Protectionism: Looking Before the Great Depression

w8993 John DiNardo
David S. Lee

The Impact of Unionization on Establishment Closure: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Representation Elections

w8985 Claudia Goldin
A Pollution Theory of Discrimination: Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings

w8983 Rebecca M. Blank
Evaluating Welfare Reform in the United States

w8979 D. Lee Heavner
Lance Lochner

Social Networks and the Aggregation on Individual Decisions

w8965 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Studying Ourselves: The Academic Labor Market

w8949 Eric A. Hanushek
Javier A. Luque

Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World

w8945 George J. Borjas
Homeownership in the Immigrant Population

w8924 Sebastian Edwards
Alejandra Cox Edwards

Social Security Privatization Reform and Labor Markets: The Case of Chile

w8915 Claudia Goldin
The Rising (and then Declining) Significance of Gender

w8910 David Neumark
Deborah Reed

Employment Relationships in the New Economy

w8898 Peter Temin
Teacher Quality and the Future of America

w8889 Robert Gibbons
Lawrence F. Katz
Thomas Lemieux
Daniel Parent

Comparative Advantage, Learning, and Sectoral Wage Determination

w8886 Ann Dryden Witte
Magaly Queralt

Take-Up Rates and Trade Offs After the Age of Entitlement: Some Thoughts and Empirical Evidence for Child Care Subsidies

w8885 Esther Duflo
Emmanuel Saez

The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

w8875 Alan B. Krueger
Economic Considerations and Class Size

w8866 Mihir A. Desai
The Corporate Profit Base, Tax Sheltering Activity, and the Changing Nature of Employee Compensation

w8861 Daniel B. Klaff
Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Collective Bargaining and Staff Salaries in American Colleges and Universities

w8843 Dora L. Costa
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample

w8841 Marianne Bertrand
Esther Duflo
Sendhil Mullainathan

How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates?

w8840 Pedro Carneiro
Karsten T. Hansen
James J. Heckman

Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies

w8832 Daron Acemoglu
Cross-Country Inequality Trends

w8830 David W. Galenson
Was Jackson Pollock the Greatest Modern American Painter? A Quantitative Investigation

w8825 Dan A. Black
Jeffrey A. Smith
Mark C. Berger
Brett J. Noel

Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective than the Services Themselves? Experimental Evidence from the UI System

w8820 Rebecca M. Blank
Can Equity and Efficiency Complement Each Other?

w8817 Jonathan Gruber
Brigitte C. Madrian

Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Job Mobility: A Critical Review of the Literature

w8815 Lance Lochner
Alexander Monge-Naranjo

Human Capital Formation with Endogenous Credit Constraints

w8811 Daniel Nagin
James Rebitzer
Seth Sanders
Lowell Taylor

Monitoring, Motivation and Management: The Determinants of Opportunistic Behavior in a Field Experiment

w8801 David Card
Richard B. Freeman

What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered?

w8799 Eric A. Hanushek
Publicly Provided Education

w8797 Richard B. Freeman
Ronald Schettkat

Marketization of Production and the US-Europe Employment Gap

w8792 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Christopher L. Smith

Within State Transitions from 2-Year to 4-Year Public Institutions

w8787 Paul Beaudry
David A. Green

Changes in U.S. Wages 1976-2000: Ongoing Skill Bias or Major Technological Change?

w8786 Marianne E. Page
Ann Huff Stevens

Will You Miss Me When I Am Gone? The Economic Consequences of Absent Parents

w8780 Sewin Chan
Ann Huff Stevens

How Does Job Loss Affect the Timing of Retirement?

w8779 David W. Galenson
The Life Cycles of Modern Artists

w8778 Robert A. Margo
The North-South Wage Gap, Before and After the Civil War

w8772 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Social Security, Pensions and Retirement Behavior Within the Family

w8769 David Card
John E. DiNardo

Skill Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some Problems and Puzzles

w8760 Eric Edmonds
Nina Pavcnik

Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam

w8757 Daniel S. Hamermesh
International Labor Economics

w8754 Paul Beaudry
Fabrice Collard

Why has the Employment-Productivity Tradeoff among Industrialized Countries been so strong?

w8731 Marie-Eve Lachance
Olivia S. Mitchell

Guaranteeing Defined Contribution Pensions: The Option to Buy-Back a Defined Benefit Promise

w8729 Morris M. Kleiner
Hwikwon Ham

Do Industrial Relations Institutions Impact Economic Outcomes?: International and U.S. State-Level Evidence

w8727 George P. Baker
Thomas N. Hubbard

Make Versus Buy in Trucking: Asset Ownership, Job Design and Information


2001
w8685 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Jaypee Sevilla

Economic Growth and the Demographic Transition

w8670 Elizabeth Powers
David Neumark

The Supplemental Security Income Program and Incentives to Take Up Social Security Early Retirement: Empirical Evidence from Matched SIPP and Social..

w8663 David Neumark
Daiji Kawaguchi

Attrition Bias in Economic Relationships Estimated with Matched CPS Files

w8661 Lucian Arye Bebchuk
Jesse M. Fried
David I. Walker

Executive Compensation in America: Optimal Contracting or Extraction of Rents?

w8660 Joshua Angrist
Adriana Kugler

Protective or Counter-Productive? European Labor Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigrants on EU Natives

w8658 Michael Baker
Jonathan Gruber
Kevin Milligan

The Retirement Incentive Effects of Canada's Income Security Programs

w8642 Shelly Lundberg
Robert A. Pollak

Efficiency in Marriage

w8640 Axel Boersch-Supan
Labor Market Effects of Population Aging

w8619 Laura L. Bivins
Kala Krishna

Transferability of Migration Licenses and the Distribution of Potential Rents

w8616 Muriel Niederle
Alvin E. Roth

Unraveling Reduces the Scope of an Entry Level Labor Market: Gastroenterology With and Without a Centralized Match

w8610 James M. Poterba
Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise

The Transition to Personal Accounts and Increasing Retirement Wealth: Macro and Micro Evidence

w8605 Lance Lochner
Enrico Moretti

The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports

w8599 Eric A. Hanushek
John F. Kain
Steven G. Rivkin

Why Public Schools Lose Teachers

w8591 Joydeep Bhattacharya
Casey B. Mulligan
Robert R. Reed III

Labor Market Search and Optimal Retirement Policy

w8588 Eric Hanushek
Charles Ka Yui Leung
Kuzey Yilmaz

Redistribution through Education and Other Transfer Mechanisms

w8587 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Jaypee Sevilla

The Effect of Health on Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence

w8578 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Melvin Stephens Jr.

Job Displacement, Disability, and Divorce

w8567 Olivia S. Mitchell
Developments in Decumulation: The Role of Annuity Products in Financing Retirement

w8563 Adriana Lleras-Muney
Were Compulsory Attendance and Child Labor Laws Effective? An Analysis from 1915 to 1939

w8562 Dhaval Dave
Robert Kaestner

Alcohol Taxes and Labor Market Outcomes

w8560 Robert Kaestner
Neeraj Kaushal
Gregg Van Ryzin

Migration Consequences of Welfare Reform

w8555 John Bound
Jeffrey Groen
Gabor Kezdi
Sarah Turner

Trade in University Training: Cross-State Variation in the Production and Use of College-Educated Labor

w8552 Charles Brown
James L. Medoff

Firm Age and Wages

w8549 David W. Galenson
Masterpieces and Markets: Why the Most Famous Modern Paintings Are Not by American Artists

w8546 Hilary Hoynes
Richard Blundell

Has "In-Work" Benefit Reform Helped the Labour Market?

w8541 Robert Kaestner
Neeraj Kaushal

Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform

w8536 Sean Nicholson
Nicholas S. Souleles

Physician Income Expectations and Specialty Choice

w8527 Russell W. Cooper
Jonathan L. Willis

The Economics of Labor Adjustment: Mind the Gap

w8526 Giuseppe Bertola
Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Outcomes: Lessons for the US from International Long-Run Evidence

w8522 Martin Gaynor
James B. Rebitzer
Lowell J. Taylor

Incentives in HMOs

w8519 Derek Neal
The Economics of Family Structure

w8513 Katharine G. Abraham
Robert Shimer

Changes in Unemployment Duration and Labor Force Attachment

w8509 Reuben Gronau
Daniel S. Hamermesh

The Demand for Variety: A Household Production Perspective

w8483 Wayne J. Diamond
Richard B. Freeman

Will Unionism Prosper in Cyber-Space? The Promise of the Internet for Employee Organization

w8478 Alberto Abadie
Javier Gardeazabal

The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case-Control Study for the Basque Country

w8474 Claudia Goldin
Maria Shim

Making a Name

w8473 Joseph G. Altonji
Ulrich Doraszelski

The Role of Permanent Income and Demographics in Black/White Differences in Wealth

w8466 Robert Barsky
John Bound
Kerwin Charles
Joseph Lupton

Accounting for the Black-White Wealth Gap: A Nonparametric Approach

w8464 Glenn MacDonald
Michael Weisbach

The Economics of Has-Beens

w8456 Joshua Angrist
Alan B. Krueger

Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural Experiments

w8448 Martin J. Conyon
Richard B. Freeman

Shared Modes of Compensation and Firm Performance: UK Evidence

w8445 Canice J. Prendergast
Consumers and Agency Problems

w8444 David Card
Charles Michalopoulos
Philip K. Robins

The Limits to Wage Growth: Measuring the Growth Rate of Wages For Recent Welfare Leavers

w8441 David S. Lee
The Electoral Advantage to Incumbency and Voters' Valuation of Politicians' Experience: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Elections to the U.S...

w8437 Rebecca M. Blank
David T. Ellwood

The Clinton Legacy for America's Poor

w8435 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Peter Schmidt

"Hall of Fame" Voting: The Econometric Society

w8434 Steven J. Davis
The Quality Distribution of Jobs and the Structure of Wages in Search Equilibrium

w8419 Michael Baker
Mark Stabile
Catherine Deri

What do Self-Reported, Objective, Measures of Health Measure?

w8413 Amanda Gosling
Thomas Lemieux

Labour Market Reforms and Changes in Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom and the United States

w8412 James R. Hines Jr.
Hilary W. Hoynes
Alan B. Krueger

Another Look at Whether a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

w8406 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Imperfect Knowledge, Retirement and Saving

w8393 David Neumark
Living Wages: Protection For or Protection From Low-Wage Workers?

w8378 Orley Ashenfelter
David Card

Did the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement Affect Faculty Retirement Flows?

w8376 Luis Garicano
Ignacio Palacios
Canice Prendergast

Favoritism Under Social Pressure

w8368 David W. Galenson
Robert Jensen

Young Geniuses and Old Masters: The Life Cycles of Great Artists from Masaccio to Jasper Johns

w8345 Jonathan Guryan
Desegregation and Black Dropout Rates

w8343 Joshua Angrist
Eric Bettinger
Erik Bloom
Elizabeth King
Michael Kremer

Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment

w8337 David H. Autor
Frank Levy
Richard J. Murnane

The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration

w8336 David H. Autor
Mark G. Duggan

The Rise in Disability Recipiency and the Decline in Unemployment

w8321 David T. Ellwood
The Sputtering Labor Force of the 21st Century. Can Social Policy Help?

w8306 Brent Boning
Casey Ichniowski
Kathryn Shaw

Opportunity Counts: Teams and the Effectiveness of Production Incentives

w8298 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

The Effects of Welfare and Tax Reform: The Material Well-Being of Single Mothers in the 1980s and 1990s

w8297 Leora Friedberg
The Impact of Technological Change on Older Workers: Evidence from Data on Computer Use

w8287 Daron Acemoglu
Directed Technical Change

w8281 Susumu Imai
Kala Krishna

Employment, Dynamic Deterrence and Crime

w8273 Gerard A. Pfann
Daniel S. Hamermesh

Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Displacement

w8269 Jonathan Guryan
Does Money Matter? Regression-Discontinuity Estimates from Education Finance Reform in Massachusetts

w8266 Martin Bruegel
David W. Galenson

Measuring Masters and Masterpieces: French Rankings of French Painters and Paintings from Realism to Surrealism

w8263 Darius Lakdawalla
The Declining Quality of Teachers

w8260 Melvin Stephens Jr.
Worker Displacement and the Added Worker Effect

w8257 Michael Kremer
Benjamin A. Olken

A Biological Model of Unions

w8253 Richard Dickens
David T. Ellwood

Whither Poverty in Great Britain and the United States? The Determinants of Changing Poverty and Whether Work Will Work

w8239 Claudia Goldin
The Human Capital Century and American Leadership: Virtues of the Past

w8238 Thomas C. Buchmueller
John DiNardo

Union Effects on Health Insurance Provision and Coverage in the United States

w8229 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Retirement and Wealth

w8215 David Neumark
Wendy A. Stock

The Effects of Race and Sex Discrimination Laws

w8211 Marianne Bertrand
Francis Kramarz

Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation? Evidence from the French Retail Industry

w8210 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

Do Cognitive Test Scores Explain Higher US Wage Inequality?

w8200 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap

w8159 Casey B. Mulligan
Aggregate Implications of Indivisible Labor

w8155 Richard B. Freeman
The Rising Tide Lifts...?

w8153 Jeffrey Grogger
The Effects of Time Limits and Other Policy Changes on Welfare Use, Work, and Income Among Female-Headed Families

w8152 David Neumark
Age Discrimination Legislation in the United States

w8149 Paul Beaudry
David Green

Population Growth, Technological Adoption and Economic Outcomes: A Theory of Cross-Country Differences for the Information Era

w8140 Dan Devroye
Richard B. Freeman

Does Inequality in Skills Explain Inequality in Earnings Across Advanced Countries?

w8137 Linda Goldberg
Joseph Tracy

Exchange Rates and Wages

w8134 Cathy J. Bradley
Heather Bednarek
David Neumark

Breast Cancer Survival, Work, and Earnings

w8124 Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration Out of Africa

w8111 Peter Cappelli
David Neumark

External Job Churning and Internal Job Flexibility

w8103 Jonathan Gruber
David Wise

An International Perspective on Policies for an Aging Society

w8102 Kimberly Ann Elliott
Richard Freeman

White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy

w8101 Raquel Fernandez
Sorting, Education and Inequality

w8094 Edward P. Lazear
The Peter Principle: Promotions and Declining Productivity

w8091 Suzanne Doyle
Olivia S. Mitchell
John Piggott

Annuity Values in Defined Contribution Retirement Systems: The Case of Singapore and Australia

w8083 Daron Acemoglu
Jaume Ventura

The World Income Distribution

w8082 Sewin Chan
Ann Huff Stevens

Retirement Incentives and Expectations


2000
w8058 Richard B. Freeman
Remco Oostendorp

Wages Around the World: Pay Across Occupations and Countries

w8054 Eliana Garces
Duncan Thomas
Janet Currie

Longer Term Effects of Head Start

w8052 Brian J. Hall
Kevin J. Murphy

Stock Options for Undiversified Executives

w8051 Linda A. Bell
Richard B. Freeman

The Incentive for Working Hard: Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. and Germany

w8050 Richard B. Freeman
Morris M. Kleiner
Cheri Ostroff

The Anatomy of Employee Involvement and Its Effects on Firms and Workers

w8042 Josh Angrist
Consequences of Imbalanced Sex Ratios: Evidence from America's Second Generation

w8031 David T. Ellwood
Jeffrey B. Liebman

The Middle Class Parent Penalty: Child Benefits in the U.S. Tax Code

w8016 Daniel S. Hamermesh
12 Million Salaried Workers Are Missing

w8014 John W. Budd
Matthew J.Slaughter

Are Profits Shared Across Borders? Evidence on International Rent Sharing

w8007 V. Joseph Hotz
Guido W. Imbens
Jacob A. Klerman

The Long-Term Gains from GAIN: A Re-Analysis of the Impacts of the California GAIN Program

w7994 John Haltiwanger
Julia Lane
James Spletzer

Wages, Productivity, and the Dynamic Interaction of Businesses and Workers

w7989 Jeffrey R. Kling
Interpreting Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Returns to Schooling

w7987 Peter Cappelli
William H. Carter

Computers, Work Organization, and Wage Outcomes

w7986 Daron Acemoglu
Jorn-Steffen Pischke

Changes in the Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children's Education

w7977 H. Naci Mocan
Erdal Tekin

Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers

w7975 John Bound
Timothy Waidmann

Accounting for Recent Declines in Employment Rates among the Working-Aged Disabled

w7973 Lawrence F. Katz
Jeffrey R. Kling
Jeffrey B. Liebman

Moving to Opportunity in Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment

w7968 Jonathan Gruber
Is Making Divorce Easier Bad for Children? The Long Run Implications of Unilateral Divorce

w7965 Takao Kato
The Recent Transformation of Participatory Employment Practices in Japan

w7964 Eli Berman
Does Factor-Biased Technological Change Stifle International Covergence? Evidence from Manufacturing

w7963 Olivia S. Mitchell
John W.R. Phillips

Retirement Responses to Early Social Security Benefit Reductions

w7959 David Autor
Wiring the Labor Market

w7950 James J. Heckman
Justin L. Tobias
Edward Vytlacil

Simple Estimators for Treatment Parameters in a Latent Variable Framework with an Application to Estimating the Returns to Schooling

w7949 Bruce Sacerdote
The Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes

w7948 Sendhil Mullainathan
Richard H. Thaler

Behavioral Economics

w7939 Chiaki Moriguchi
The Evolution of Employment Relations in U.S. and Japanese Manufacturing Firms, 1900-1960: A Comparative Historical and Institutional Analysis

w7937 Michael Baker
Nicole M. Fortin

Does Comparable Worth Work in a Decentralized Labor Market?

w7932 Jeremy Atack
Fred Bateman
Robert A. Margo

Rising Wage Dispersion Across American Manufacturing Establishments, 1850-1880

w7931 Marianne Bertrand
Kevin F. Hallock

The Gender Gap in Top Corporate Jobs

w7924 Richard Arnould
Marianne Bertrand
Kevin F. Hallock

Does Managed Care Change the Mission of Nonprofit Hospitals? Evidence From the Managerial Labor Market

w7923 Jonathan Gruber
Peter Orszag

Does the Social Security Earnings Test Affect Labor Supply and Benefits Receipt?

w7905 Steven J. Davis
Paul Willen

Occupation-Level Income Shocks and Asset Returns: Their Covariance and Implications for Portfolio Choice

w7890 David H. Autor
Frank Levy
Richard Murnane

Upstairs, Downstairs: Computer-Skill Complementarity and Computer-Labor Substitution on Two Floors of a Large Bank

w7886 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
John L. Cheslock
Julia Epifantseva

Paying our Presidents: What do Trustees Value?

w7875 Julian R. Betts
Jeff Grogger

The Impact of Grading Standards on Student Achievement, Educational Attainment, and Entry-Level Earnings

t0261 Alberto Abadie
Bootstrap Tests for the Effect of a Treatment on the Distribution of an Outcome Variable

w7867 Caroline Hoxby
Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation

w7866 Caroline Hoxby
Would School Choice Change the Teaching Profession?

w7844 Rajeev Dehejia
Was There a Riverside Miracle? A Framework for Evaluating Multi-Site Programs

w7841 John Cawley
Body Weight and Women's Labor Market Outcomes

w7834 Jarle Møen
Is Mobility of Technical Personnel a Source of R&D Spillovers?

w7830 Courtney Coile
Jonathan Gruber

Social Security and Retirement

w7820 James Heckman
Edward Vytlacil

Identifying the Role of Cognitive Ability in Explaining the Level of and Change in the Return to Schooling

w7817 Jacob Mincer
Stephan Danninger

Technology, Unemployment, and Inflation

w7815 Canice Prendergast
The Tenuous Tradeoff Between Risk and Incentives

w7800 Daron Acemoglu
Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market

w7799 George J. Borjas
Valerie A. Ramey

Market Responses to Interindustry Wage Differentials

w7794 John DiNardo
Kevin F. Hallock

When Unions "Mattered": Assessing the Impact of Strikes on Financial Markets: 1925-1937

w5622 Thomas Dunn
Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Financial Capital, Human Capital, and the Transition to Self-Employment:Evidence from Intergenerational Links

w7773 James J. Heckman
Carmen Pages

The Cost of Job Security Regulation: Evidence from Latin American Labor Markets

w7771 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation

w7769 David Card
Estimating the Return to Schooling: Progress on Some Persistent Econometric Problems

w7757 Richard B. Freeman
The US Economic Model at Y2K: Lodestar for Advanced Capitalism?

w7754 Caroline M. Hoxby
Benevolent Colluders? The Effects of Antitrust Action on College Financial Aid and Tuition

w7742 Peter Cappelli
Examining the Incidence of Downsizing and Its Effect on Establishment Performance

w7737 Eli Berman
Kevin Lang
Erez Siniver

Language-Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition

w7733 David Neumark
Mary Joyce

An Introduction to School-To-Work Programs in the NLSY97: How Prevalent are They, and Which Youths do They Serve?

w7732 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

Gender Differences in Pay

w7731 Robert Rich
Joseph Tracy

Uncertainty and Labor Contract Durations

w7730 K.C. O'Shaughnessy
David I. Levine
Peter Cappelli

Changes in Managerial Pay Structures 1986-1992 and Rising Returns to Skill

w7728 Edward L. Glaeser
David Laibson
Bruce Sacerdote

The Economic Approach to Social Capital

w7723 Paul M. Romer
Should the Government Subsidize Supply or Demand in the Market for Scientists and Engineers?

w7719 David Neumark
Mary Joyce

Evaluating School-To-Work Programs Using the New NLSY

w7709 Jeff Grogger
Time Limits and Welfare Use

w7697 Paul Beaudry
David Green

The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany: What Explains the Differences?

w7680 Casey B. Mulligan
Can Monopoly Unionism Explain Publicly Induced Retirement?

w7678 Song Han
Casey B. Mulligan

Human Capital, Heterogeneity, and Estimated Degrees of Intergenerational Mobility

w7676 Edward L. Glaeser
Bruce Sacerdote

The Determinants of Punishment: Deterrence, Incapacitation and Vengeance

w7671 James E. Rauch
Vitor Trindade

Information and Globalization: Wage Co-Movements, Labor Demand Elasticity, and Conventional Trade Liberalization

w7658 David Card
Thomas Lemieux

Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Post-War Period: What Went Wrong in the 1970s?

w7656 Alan Krueger
Diane Whitmore

The Effect of Attending a Small Class in the Early Grades on College-Test Taking and Middle School Test Results: Evidence from Project STAR

w7655 David Card
Thomas Lemieux

Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis

w7646 Sebastian Edwards
Alejandra Cox Edwards

Economic Reforms and Labor Markets: Policy Issues and Lessons from Chile

w7637 David H. Autor
Why Do Temporary Help Firms Provide Free General Skills Training?

w7636 Edward L. Glaeser
Matthew E. Kahn
Jordan Rappaport

Why Do the Poor Live in Cities?

w7635 George J. Borjas
Foreign-Born Teaching Assistants and the Academic Performance of Undergraduates

w7627 Robert F. Schoeni
Rebecca M. Blank

What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure

w7611 Richard B. Freeman
Ronald Schettkat

Low Wage Services: Interpreting the US - German Difference

w7610 Richard B. Freeman
Ronald Schettkat

Skill Compression, Wage Differentials and Employment: Germany vs. the US

w7608 Dora L. Costa
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor

w7606 David Neumark
Scott Adams

Do Living Wage Ordinances Reduce Urban Poverty?

w7604 Marianne Bertrand
Sendhil Mullainathan

Do CEOs Set Their Own Pay? The Ones Without Principals Do

w7599 David Neumark
William Wascher

Using the EITC to Help Poor Families: New Evidence and a Comparision with the Minimum Wage

w7597 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

How Effective is Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula?

w7596 Brian J. Hall
Jeffrey B. Liebman

The Taxation of Executive Compensation

w7594 Marianne Bertrand
Douglas Miller
Sendhil Mullainathan

Public Policy and Extended Families: Evidence from South Africa

w7588 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Retirement Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study

w7583 Robert J. Lemke
Ann Dryden Witte
Magaly Queralt
Robert Witt

Child Care and the Welfare to Work Transition

w7580 Charles F. Manski
Economic Analysis of Social Interactions

w7578 David Card
John E. DiNardo

Do Immigrant Inflows Lead to Native Outflows?

w7573 Sherwin Rosen
Allen Sanderson

Labor Markets in Professional Sports

w7564 Jennifer Hunt
Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?

w7562 Christopher Ruhm
Carey Borkoski

Compensation in the Nonprofit Sector

w7561 Robert W. Fairlie
Bruce D. Meyer

The Effect of Immigration on Native Self-Employment

w7557 David H. Autor
Outsourcing at Will: Unjust Dismissal Doctrine and the Growth of Temporary Help Employment

w7556 Richard B. Freeman
Single Peaked Vs. Diversified Capitalism: The Relation Between Economic Institutions and Outcomes

w7548 Brian J. Hall
Kevin J. Murphy

Optimal Exercise Prices for Executive Stock Options

w7545 Eli Berman
Zaur Rzakhanov

Fertility, Migration, and Altruism

w7542 Lalith Munasinghe
Nachum Sicherman

Why Do Dancers Smoke? Time Preference, Occupational Choice, and Wage Growth

w7527 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions

w7526 Hugo Benitez-Silva
Moshe Buchinsky
Hiu Man Chan
Sofia Cheidvasser
John Rust

How Large is the Bias is Self-Reported Disability?

w7522 Phillip B. Levine
David J. Zimmerman

Children's Welfare Exposure and Subsequent Development

w7521 Steven F. Venti
David A. Wise

Choice, Chance, and Wealth Dispersion at Retirement

w7519 David Neumark
Mark Schweitzer
William Wascher

The Effects of Minimum Wages Throughout the Wage Distribution

w7510 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn
Jane Waldfogel

Understanding Young Women's Marriage Decisions: The Role of Labor and Marriage Market Conditions

w7508 Raquel Fernandez
Richard Rogerson

Sorting and Long-Run Inequality

w7507 Jonathan Gruber
Botond Koszegi

Is Addiction "Rational"? Theory and Evidence

w7502 Steven J. Davis
Magnus Henrekson

Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy

w7501 Adriana Cassoni
Steven G. Allen
Gaston J. Labadie

The Effect of Unions on Employment: Evidence from an Unnatural Experiment in Uruguay

w7491 Bruce D. Meyer
Dan T. Rosenbaum

Making Single Mothers Work: Recent Tax and Welfare Policy and its Effects

w7487 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald

Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA

w7486 David G. Blanchflower
Self-Employment in OECD Countries

w7479 Sandra E. Black
Lisa M. Lynch

What's Driving the New Economy: The Benefits of Workplace Innovation

w7474 Richard B. Freeman
Ronald Schettkat

The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences

w7469 Bruce Sacerdote
Peer Effects with Random Assignment: Results for Dartmouth Roommates

w7467 Ann P. Bartel
Human Resource Management and Performance in the Service Sector: The Case of Bank Branches

w7457 Orley Ashenfelter
Colm Harmon
Hessel Oosterbeek

A Review of Estimates of the Schooling/Earnings Relationship, with Tests for Publication Bias

w7456 Alan B. Krueger
From Bismarck to Maastricht: The March to European Union and the Labor Compact

w7455 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Togetherness: Spouses' Synchronous Leisure, and the Impact of Children


1999
w7454 Daniel P. Kessler
Lawrence Katz

Prevailing Wage Laws and Construction Labor Markets

w7452 John Bound
Sarah E. Turner

Going to War and Going to College: Did World War II and the G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment for Returning Veterans?

w7450 Eric A. Hanushek
Julie A. Somers

Schooling, Inequality, and the Impact of Government

w7449 John Knowles
Nicola Persico
Petra Todd

Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence

w7444 Daron Acemoglu
Joshua Angrist

How Large are the Social Returns to Education? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws

w7442 Kenneth Y. Chay
Michael Greenstone

The Impact of Air Pollution on Infant Mortality: Evidence from Geographic Variation in Pollution Shocks Induced by a Recession

w7427 Marcello M. Estevao
Saul Lach

The Evolution of the Demand for Temporary Help Supply Employment in the United States

w7424 Joshua Angrist
Victor Lavy

New Evidence on Classroom Computers and Pupil Learning

w7421 Marcello Estevao
Saul Lach

Measuring Temporary Labor Outsourcing in U.S. Manufacturing

w7419 Edward P. Lazear
Output-based Pay: Incentives or Sorting?

w7415 Andrea Ichino
Giovanni Maggi

Work Environment and Individual Background: Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm

w7414 Morris M. Kleiner
Jonathan S. Leonard
Adam M. Pilarski

Do Industrial Relations Affect Plant Performance?: The Case of Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing

w7410 Scott Stern
Do Scientists Pay to Be Scientists?

w7407 David W. Galenson
Quantifying Artistic Success: Ranking French Painters - and Paintings - from Impressionism to Cubism

w7381 Olivia Mitchell
New Trends in Pension Benefit and Retirement Provisions

w7374 David Neumark
Peter Cappelli

Do "High Performance" Work Practices Improve Establishment-Level Outcomes?

w7371 Michael Baker
Nicole M. Fortin

Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Canada: 1987-1988

w7370 Michael Baker
Gary Solon

Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Canadian Men, 1976-1992: Evidence from Longitudinal Income Tax Records

w7368 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

What People Don't Know About Their Pensions and Social Security: An Analysis Using Linked Data from the Health and Retirement Study

w7363 Bruce D. Meyer
Dan T. Rosenbaum

Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers

w7353 Jeff Grogger
Charles Michalopoulos

Welfare Dynamics Under Time Limits

w7352 Daron Acemoglu
Robert Shimer

Productivity Gains from Unemployment Insurance

w7349 Edward P. Lazear
Educational Production

w7348 Jonathan Gruber
The Wealth of the Unemployed: Adequacy and Implications for Unemployment Insurance

w7344 Michael Hout
Harvey S. Rosen

Self-Employment, Family Background, and Race

w7334 Rajesh K. Aggarwal
Andrew A. Samwick

Performance Incentives Within Firms: The Effect of Managerial Responsibility

w7333 James L. Heckman
Causal Parameters and Policy Analysis in Economcs: A Twentieth Century Retrospective

w7332 Daniel S. Hamermesh
The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction

w7328 John DiNardo
Mark P. Moore

The Phillips Curve is Back? Using Panel Data to Analyze the Relationship Between Unemployment and Inflation in an Open Economy

w7323 Harry Holzer
David Neumark

Assessing Affirmative Action

w7322 Stacy Berg Dale
Alan B. Krueger

Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables

w7318 Courtney Coile
Peter Diamond
Jonathan Gruber
Alain Jousten

Delays in Claiming Social Security Benefits

w7306 Robert Shimer
The Impact of Young Workers on the Aggregate Labor Market

w7300 Edward P. Lazear
Economic Imperialism

w7299 David Neumark
William Wascher

A Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment

w7296 Theodore Eisenberg
Henry S. Farber

The Government as Litigant: Further Tests of the Case Selection Model

w7295 Henry S. Farber
Kevin F. Hallock

Have Employment Reductions Become Good News for Shareholders? The Effect of Job Loss Announcements on Stock Prices, 1970-97

w7294 Orley Ashenfelter
Dean Hyslop

Measuring the Effects of Arbitration on Wage Levels: The Case of Police Officers

w7291 Janet Currie
Aaron Yelowitz

Health Insurance and Less Skilled Workers

w7288 James J. Heckman
Policies to Foster Human Capital

w5107 Ann P. Bartel
Nachum Sicherman

Technological Change and the Skill Acquisition of Young Workers

w7249 Stephen V. Cameron
James J. Heckman

The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites

w7243 Phillip J. Levine
Olivia S. Mitchell
John W. Phillips

Worklife Determinants of Retirement Income Differentials Between Men and Women

w7236 Joseph G. Altonji
Paul J. Devereux

The Extent and Consequences of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity

w7235 Thomas J. Kane
Cecilia Elena Rouse
Douglas Staiger

Estimating Returns to Schooling When Schooling is Misreported

w7230 James J. Heckman
Accounting for Heterogeneity, Diversity, and General Equilibriumin Evaluating Social Programs

w7229 Henry S. Farber
Union Success in Representation Elections: Why Does Unit Size Matter?

w7227 James Monks
Ronald G. Ehrenberg

The Impact of US News and World Report College Rankings on Admission Outcomes and Pricing Decisions at Selective Private Institutions

w7226 Anne Morrison Piehl
Suzanne J. Cooper
Anthony A. Braga
David M. Kennedy

Testing for Structural Breaks in the Evaluation of Programs

w7224 Matthew Higgins
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Explaining Inequality the World Round: Cohort Size, Kuznets Curves, andOpenness

w7217 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

Education and Income in the Early 20th Century: Evidence from the Prairies

w7216 Edward L. Glaeser
David Laibson
Jose A. Scheinkman
Christine L. Soutter

What is Social Capital? The Determinants of Trust and Trustworthiness

w7197 Erling Barth
Harald Dale-Olsen

Monopsonistic Discrimination and the Gender-Wage Gap

w7190 Alan B. Krueger
Mikael Lindahl

Education for Growth in Sweden and the World

w7188 Hilary Hoynes
The Employment, Earnings, and Income of Less Skilled Workers Over the Business Cycle

w7184 Daron Acemoglu
Jorn-Steffen Pischke

Minimum Wages and On-the-job Training

w7182 Robert W. Fairlie
Bruce D. Meyer

Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men: 1910-1990

w7174 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Employer Provided Pension Data in the NLS Mature Women's Survey and in the Health and Retirement Study

w7172 Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett
John H. Tyler

Who Benefits from Obtaining a GED? Evidence from High School and Beyond

w7171 David Neumark
The Employment Effects of Recent Minimum Wage Increases: Evidence from a Pre-specified Research Design

w7167 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Xin Meng
Junsen Zhang

Dress for Success -- Does Primping Pay?

w7158 Hao Li
Sherwin Rosen
Wing Suen

Conflicts and Common Interests in Committees

w7131 Jinyong Hahn
Petra Todd
Wilbert Van der Klaauw

Evaluating the Effect of an Antidiscrimination Law Using a Regression-Discontinuity Design

w7128 Jennifer Hunt
Determinants of Non-employment and Unemployment Durations in East Germany

w7126 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century

w7124 John M. Abowd
David S. Kaplan

Executive Compensation: Six Questions that Need Answering

w7122 David W. Galenson
Bruce A. Weinberg

Age and the Quality of Work: The Case of Modern American Painters

w7109 Dora L. Costa
Matthew E. Kahn

Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990

w7101 John H. Tyler
Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett

Do the Cognitive Skills of School Dropouts Matter in the Labor Market?

w7099 Rebecca M. Blank
When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services

w7095 Steven J. Davis
John Haltiwanger

Sectoral Job Creation and Destruction Responses to Oil Price Changes

w7074 Gordon H. Hanson
Matthew J. Slaughter

The Rybczynski Theorem, Factor-Price Equalization, and Immigration: Evidence from U.S. States

w7073 Richard B. Freeman
William M. Rodgers III

Area Economic Conditions and the Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men in the 1990s Expansion

w5523 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Peter J. Hurst

The 1995 NRC Ratings of Doctoral Programs: A Hedonic Model

w7058 Patricia M. Anderson
Philip B. Levine

Child Care and Mothers' Employment Decisions

w7054 Gordon H. Hanson
Raymond Robertson
Antonio Spilimbergo

Does Border Enforcement Protect U.S. Workers from Illegal Immigration?

w7018 Daron Acemoglu
Patterns of Skill Premia

w7006 Alan Krueger
Measuring Labor's Share

w7003 Kimberly Bayard
Judith Hellerstein
David Neumark
Kenneth Troske

New Evidence on Sex Segregation and Sex Differences in Wages from Matched Employee-Employer Data

w7002 Henry S. Farber
Alternative and Part-Time Employment Arrangements as a Response to Job Loss

w7001 Guido W. Imbens
Donald B. Rubin
Bruce Sacerdote

Estimating the Effects of Unearned Income on Labor Supply, Earnings, Savings, and Consumption: Evidence from a Survey of Lottery Players

w6998 Rebecca M. Blank
David Card
Philip K. Robins

Financial Incentives for Increasing Work and Income Among Low-Income Families

w6997 Kimberly Bayard
Judith Hellerstein
David Neumark
Kenneth Troske

Why are Racial and Ethnic Wage Gaps Larger for Men than for Women? Exploring the Role of Segregation

w6996 John M. Abowd
Francis Kramarz
David N. Margolis

Minimum Wages and Employment in France and the United States

w6985 Linda Goldberg
Joseph Tracy

Exchange Rates and Local Labor Markets

w6983 James J. Heckman
Jeffrey A. Smith

The Pre-Program Earnings Dip and the Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Implications for Simple Program Evaluation Strategies

w6982 Orley Ashenfelter
David Ashmore
Olivier Deschenes

Do Unemployment Insurance Recipients Actively Seek Work? Randomized Trials in Four U.S. States

w6976 Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Jaroslava K. Mykula

Do Indirect Costs Matter?

w6974 Kristin F. Butcher
Anne Morrison Piehl

The Role of Deportation in the Incarceration of Immigrants

w6966 Steven G. Allen
Robert L. Clark
Sylvester J. Schieber

Has Job Security Vanished in Large Corporations?

w6963 Alvin E. Roth
Elliott Peranson

The Redesign of the Matching Market for American Physicians: Some Engineering Aspects of Economic Design

w6957 Edward P. Lazear
Personnel Economics: Past Lessons and Future Directions

w6943 Janet Currie
Duncan Thomas

Early Test Scores, Socioeconomic Status and Future Outcomes

w6942 Richard B. Freeman
David L. Lindauer

Why Not Africa?

w6927 Daniel S. Hamermesh
The Art of Labormetrics

w6924 Olivier Jean Blanchard
Lawrence Katz

Wage Dynamics: Reconciling Theory and Evidence

w6920 Sewin Chan
Ann Huff Stevens

Job Loss and Retirement Behavior of Older Men

w6908 Charles F. Manski
John D. Straub

Worker Perceptions of Job Insecurity in the Mid-1990s: Evidence from the Survey of Economic Expectations

w6902 Orley Ashenfelter
Cecilia Rouse

Schooling, Intelligence, and Income in America: Cracks in the Bell Curve

w6900 Marianne Bertrand
From the Invisible Handshake to the Invisible Hand? How Import Competition Changes the Employment Relationship

w6888 David W. Galenson
The Lives of the Painters of Modern Life: The Careers of Artists in France from Impressionism to Cubism

w6881 James J. Heckman
Lance Lochner
Christopher Taber

General Equilibrium Cost Benefit Analysis of Education and Tax Policies

w6879 Daron Acemoglu
Fabrizio Zilbotti

Productivity Differences

w6878 Jennifer Hunt
Post-Unification Wage Growth in East Germany

w6873 Caroline M. Hoxby
Bridget Terry

Explaining Rising Income and wage Inequality Among the College Educated

w6871 Jonathan B. Berk
Statistical Discrimination in a Competitive Labor Market


1998
w6868 George P. Baker
Brian J. Hall

CEO Incentives and Firm Size

w6860 Martin Feldstein
Daniel Altman

Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts

w6855 Dora L. Costa
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938 - 1950

w6854 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Changing Pensions in Cross-Section and Panel Data: Analysis with Employer Provided Plan Descriptions

w6853 Paul Beaudry
David Green

What is Driving US and Canadian Wages: Exogenous Technical Change or Endogenous Choice of Technique?

w6840 David G. Blanchflower
Phillip B. Levine
David J. Zimmerman

Discrimination in the Small Business Credit Market

w6830 Marianne Bertrand
Sendhil Mullainathan

Executive Compensation and Incentives: The Impact of Takeover Legislation

w6829 Rajeev H. Dehejia
Sadek Wahba

Propensity Score Matching Methods for Non-experimental Causal Studies

w6816 Magnus Blomstrom
Fredrik Sjoholm

Technology Transfer and Spillovers? Does Local Participation with Multinationals Matter?

w6813 George J. Borjas
Immigration and Welfare Magnets

w6808 Patricia M. Anderson
Bruce D. Meyer

Using a Natural Experiment to Estimate the Effects of the Unemployment Insurance Payroll Tax on Wages, Employment, Claims, and Denials

w6805 David Neumark
Elizabeth Powers

Welfare for the Elderly: The Effects of SSI on Pre-Retirement Labor Supply

w6798 Ann Dryden Witte
Magaly Queralt
Tasneem Chipty
Harriet Griesinger

Unintended Consequences? Welfare Reform and the Working Poor

w6786 Robert Witt
Ann Dryden Witte

Crime, Imprisonment, and Female Labor Force Participation: A Time-Series Approach

w6781 Joshua D. Angrist
Victor Lavy

Does Teacher Training Affect Pupil Learning? Evidence from Matched Comparisons in Jerusalem Public Schools

w6777 John Bound
Michael Schoenbaum
Todd R. Stinebrickner
Timothy Waidmann

The Dynamic Effects of Health on the Labor Force Transitions of Older Workers

w6772 David A. Jaeger
Susanna Loeb
Sarah E. Turner
John Bound

Coding Geographic Areas Across Census Years: Creating Consistent Definitions of Metropolitan Areas

w6766 David Card
A. Abigail Payne

School Finance Reform, the Distribution of School Spending, and the Distribution of SAT Scores

w6764 Guillermina Jasso
Mark R. Rosenzweig
James P. Smith

The Changing Skills of New Immigrants to the United States: Recent Trends and Their Determinants

w6761 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Sharon M. Oster

Tools or Toys? The Impact of High Technology on Scholarly Productivity

w6757 Julian R. Betts
Magnus Lofstrom

The Educational Attainment of Immigrants: Trends and Implications

w6750 Richard B. Freeman
Morris M. Kleiner

The Last American Shoe Manufacturers: Changing the Method of Pay to Survive Foreign Competition

w6740 Daron Acemoglu
Jorn-Steffen Pischke

Beyond Becker: Training in Imperfect Labor Markets

w6732 Thomas Lemieux
W. Bentley MacLeod

Supply Side Hysterisis: The Case of the Canadian Unemployment InsuranceSystem

w6721 John Bound
Gary Solon

Double Trouble: On the Value of Twins-Based Estimation of the Return to Schooling

w6718 Thomas Lemieux
David Card

Education, Earnings, and the "Canadian G.I. Bill"

w6716 Francine D. Blau
Patricia Simpson
Deborah Anderson

Continuing Progress? Trends in Occupational Segregation in the United States Over the 1970s and 1980s

w6715 Eli Berman
Sect, Subsidy, and Sacrifice: An Economist's View of Ultra-Orthodox Jews

w6714 David Card
Phillip B. Levine

Extended Benefits and the Duration of UI Spells: Evidence from the New Jersey Extended Benefit Program

w6709 Henry S. Farber
Helen Levy

Recent Trends in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Coverage: Are Bad Jobs Getting Worse?

w6699 James Heckman
Hidehiko Ichimura
Jeffrey Smith
Petra Todd

Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data

w6695 Robert Gibbons
Incentives in Organizations

w6686 Daron Acemoglu
Robert Shimer

Efficient Unemployment Insurance

w6681 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Effects of Pensions on Saving: Analysis with Data from the Health and Retirement Study

w6679 Joshua D. Angrist
John H. Johnson
IV

Effects of Work-Related Absences on Families: Evidence from the Gulf War

w6674 Brian J. Hall
The Pay to Performance Incentives of Executive Stock Options

w6670 Daron Acemoglu
Joshua Angrist

Consequences of Employment Protection? The Case of the Americans with Disabilities Act

w6662 Derek Neal
The Complexity of Job Mobility Among Young Men

w6658 Daron Acemoglu
Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality: An Alternative Theory and Some Evidence

w6651 David Neumark
William Wascher

Minimum Wages and Training Revisited

w6650 David A. Jaeger
Ann Huff Stevens

Is Job Stability in the US Falling? Reconciling Trends in the Current Population Survey and Panel Study of Income Dynamics

w6638 Kevin M. Murphy
W. Craig Riddell
Paul M. Romer

Wages, Skills, and Technology in the United States and Canada

w6634 Rajesh Aggarwal
Andrew A. Samwick

The Other Side of the Tradeoff: The Impact of Risk on Executive Compensation

w6630 Kristin F. Butcher
John DiNardo

The Immigrant and Native-born Wage Distributions: Evidence from United States Censuses

w6626 Edward E. Leamer
Christopher Thornberg

Efforts and Wages: A New Look at the Inter-Industry Wage Differentials

w6613 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Crime and the Timing of Work

w6605 Harry J. Holzer
David Neumark

What Does Affirmative Action Do?

w6586 Rajeev H. Dehejia
Sadek Wahba

Causal Effects in Non-Experimental Studies: Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs

w6585 Casey B. Mulligan
Substitution over Time: Another Look at Life Cycle Labor Supply

w6581 David Neumark
Youth Labor Markets in the U.S.: Shopping Around vs. Staying Put

w6579 Edward P. Lazear
Globalization and the Market for Teammates

w6573 David Neumark
Labor Market Information and Wage Differentials by Race and Sex

w6571 Andrew B. Bernard
J. Bradford Jensen

Understanding Increasing and Decreasing Wage Inequality

w6565 Jonathan E. Haskel
Matthew J. Slaughter

Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?

w6554 Christopher J. Ruhm
Parental Leave and Child Health

w6537 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The Shaping of Higher Education: The Formative Years in the United States, 1890 to 1940

w6536 David Neumark
Mark Schweitzer
William Wascher

The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Distribution of Family Incomes: A Non-Parametric Analysis

w6535 Edward P. Lazear
Diversity and Immigration

w6520 David Card
Falling Union Membership and Rising Wage Inequality: What's the Connection?

w6519 David Card
John DiNardo
Eugena Estes

The More Things Change: Immigrants and the Children of Immigrants in the 1940s, the 1970s, and the 1990s

w6515 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Changing Inequality in Markets for Workplace Amenities

w6506 George J. Borjas
The Economic Progress of Immigrants

w6503 Debra Sabatini Dwyer
Olivia S. Mitchell

Health Problems as Determinants of Retirement: Are Self-Rated Measures Endogenous?

w6496 Susan Athey
Christopher Avery
Peter Zemsky

Mentoring and Diversity

w6489 Cynthia K. Gustafson
Phillip B. Levine

Less-Skilled Workers, Welfare Reform, and the Unemployment Insurance System

w6479 Douglas Kruse
Douglas Mahony

Illegal Child Labor in the United States: Prevalence and Characteristics

w6478 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Social Security Benefits of Immigrants and U.S. Born

w6454 Robert Gibbons
Michael Waldman

A Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics in Internal Labor Markets

w6450 Alan B. Krueger
Aaron Siskind

Assessing the Bias in the Consumer Price Index from Survey Data

w6449 David Card
Philip K. Robins
Winston Lin

Would Financial Incentives for Leaving Welfare Lead Some People to Stay on Welfare Longer? An Experimental Evaluation of 'Entry Effects' in the SSP

w6446 John Cawley
James Heckman
Edward Vytlacil

Meritocracy in America: An Examination of Wages Within and Across Occupations

w6445 Julio J. Rotemberg
Cyclical Movements in Wages and Consumption in a Bargaining Model of Unemployment

w6439 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

Human Capital and Social Capital: The Rise of Secondary Schooling in America, 1910 to 1940

w5366 Jeff E. Biddle
Daniel S. Hamermesh

Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination: Lawyers' Looks and Lucre

w6426 James J. Heckman
Lance Lochner
Christopher Taber

General Equilibrium Treatment Effects: A Study of Tuition Policy

w6419 Dora L. Costa
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View

w6418 John Donohue III
James J. Heckman
Petra E. Todd

Social Action, Private Choice, and Philanthropy: Understanding the Sources of Improvements in Black Schooling in Georgia, 1911-1960

w6391 John H. Tyler
Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett

Estimating the Impact of the GED on the Earnings of Young Dropouts Using a Series of Natural Experiments

w5081 Robert J. Gordon
Is There a Tradeoff between Unemployment and Productivity Growth?

w6388 John Cawley
James Heckman
Edward Vytlacil

Understanding the Role of Cognitive Ability in Accounting for the Recent Rise in the Economic Return to Education

w6386 David Card
Alan B. Krueger

A Reanalysis of the Effect of the New Jersey Minimum Wage Increase on the Fast-Food Industry with Representative Payroll Data

w6385 Stephen V. Cameron
James J. Heckman

Life Cycle Schooling and Dynamic Selection Bias: Models and Evidence for Five Cohorts

w6384 James J. Heckman
Lance Lochner
Christopher Taber

Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents

w6378 Derek Neal
Sherwin Rosen

Theories of the Distribution of Labor Earnings

w6364 Dani Rodrik
Democracies Pay Higher Wages

w6357 Daron Acemoglu
Jorn-Steffen Pischke

The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training

w6355 Paul Beaudry
Charles Blackorby

Taxes and Employment Subsidies in Optimal Redistribution Programs

w6353 Jeff Grogger
Mike Willis

The Introduction of Crack Cocaine and the Rise in Urban Crime Rates


1997
w6343 Rebecca M. Blank
What Causes Public Assistance Caseloads to Grow?

w6331 David W. Galenson
The Careers of Modern Artists: Evidence from Auctions of Contemporary Paintings

w6330 David Neumark
Daniel Polsky
Daniel Hansen

Has Job Stability Declined Yet? New Evidence for the 1990's

w6321 Judith K. Hellerstein
David Neumark
Kenneth R. Troske

Market Forces and Sex Discrimination

w6318 John DiNardo
Kevin Hallock
Jorn-Steffen Pischke

Unions and Managerial Pay

w6308 Jonathan Gruber
Social Security and Retirement in Canada

w6303 David Neumark
Elizabeth Powers

The Effect of Means-Tested Income Support for the Elderly on Pre-Retirement Saving: Evidence from the SSI Program in the U.S.

w6299 Eli Berman
Linda T. Bui

Environmental Regulation and Labor Demand: Evidence from the South Coast Air Basin

w6279 Joseph G. Altonji
Charles R. Pierret

Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination

w6271 Edward Glaeser
Learning in Cities

w6265 Robert W. Fairlie
Bruce D. Meyer

Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?

h0105 Price V. Fishback
Operations of "Unfettered" Labor Markets at the Turn of the Century

w6246 Steven J. Davis
Magnus Henrekson

Explaining National Differences in the Size and Industry Distribution of Employment

w6226 Christopher L. Foote
The Surprising Symmetry of Gross Job Flows

w6213 Brian J. Hall
Jeffrey B. Liebman

Are CEOs Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?

w6212 Wolfgang Franz
Joachim Inkmann
Winfried Pohlmeier
Volker Zimmermann

Young and Out in Germany: On the Youths' Chances of Labor Market Entrance in Germany

w6209 Daniel Trefler
Immigrants and Natives in General Equilibrium Trade Models

w6208 Patricia M. Anderson
Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Trends in Male Labor Force Participation And Retirement: Some Evidence On The Role Of Pensions And Social Security In The 1970's And 1980's

w6206 Francine D. Blau
Trends in the Well-Being of American Women, 1970-1995

w5705 Robert Gibbons
Incentives and Careers in Organizations

w4230 Assaf Razin
Efraim Sadka

International Migration and International Trade

w3764 Henry S. Farber
Robert Gibbons

Learning and Wage Dynamics

w6195 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Immigration and the Quality of Jobs

w6178 Olivia S. Mitchell
James F. Moore

Retirement Wealth Accumulation and Decumulation: New Developments and Outstanding Opportunities

w6176 George J. Borjas
To Ghetto or Not to Ghetto: Ethnicity and Residential Segregation

w6175 George J. Borjas
Glenn T. Sueyoshi

Ethnicity and the Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency

w6167 Jennifer Hunt
The Transition in East Germany: When is a Ten Point Fall in the Gender Wage Gap Bad News?

w6166 Eli Berman
John Bound
Stephen Machin

Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change: International Evidence

w6151 Victor R. Fuchs
Alan B. Krueger
James M. Poterba

Why do Economists Disagree About Policy?

w6146 Alan B. Krueger
Jorn-Steffen Pischke

Observations and Conjectures on the U.S. Employment Miracle

w6144 Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

Why the United States Led in Education: Lessons from Secondary School Expansion, 1910 to 1940

w6142 David Card
Thomas Lemieux

Adapting to Circumstances: The Evolution of Work, School, and Living Arrangements Among North American Youth

w6132 Paul Beaudry
David Green

Cohort Patterns in Canadian Earnings: Assessing the Role of Skill Premia in Inequality Trends

w6127 David Neumark
William Wascher

Do Minimum Wages Fight Poverty?

w6120 Sandra E. Black
Lisa M. Lynch

How to Compete: The Impact of Workplace Practices and Information Technology on Productivity

w4748 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

The Impact of Wage Structure on Trends in U.S. Gender Wage Differentials1975-1987

t0214 John M. Abowd
Bruno Crepon
Francis Kramarz

Moment Estimation with Attrition

t0199 Robert Gibbons
An Introduction to Applicable Game Theory

w6118 Michael Kremer
Why are Worker Cooperatives So Rare?

w6111 John M. Abowd
Francis Kramarz
Thomas Lemieux
David N. Margolis

Minimum Wages and Youth Employment in France and the United States

w6110 John M. Abowd
Francis Kramarz

The Costs of Hiring and Separations

w6109 John M. Abowd
Francis Kramarz

Internal and External Labor Markets: An Analysis of Matched Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data

w6106 Orley Ashenfelter
Cecilia Rouse

Income, Schooling, and Ability: Evidence from a New Sample of Identical Twins

w6105 James J. Heckman
Jeffrey A. Smith

The Sensitivity of Experimental Impact Estimates: Evidence from the National JTPA Study

w6102 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald

The Rising Well-Being of the Young

w6100 David G. Blanchflower
Changes Over Time in Union Relative Wage Effects in Great Britain and the United States

w6097 Peter Diamond
Jonathan Gruber

Social Security and Retirement in the U.S.

w6088 David Neumark
Wendy A. Stock

Age Discrimination Laws and Labor Market Efficiency

w6083 Ciska M. Bosman
Gerard Pfann
Jeff E. Biddle
Daniel S. Hamermesh

Business Success and Businesses' Beauty Capital

w6078 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

Gender and Youth Employment Outcomes: The US and West Germany, 1984-91

w6067 Kristin F. Butcher
Anne Morrison Piehl

Recent Immigrants: Unexpected Implications for Crime and Incarceration

w6054 Dora L. Costa
Less of a Luxury: The Rise of Recreation since 1888

w6051 Alan B. Krueger
Experimental Estimates of Education Production Functions

w6047 Jeff Grogger
Stephen G. Bronars

The Effect of Welfare Payments on the Marriage and Fertility Behavior of Unwed Mothers: Results from a Twins Experiment

w6034 Jonathan Gruber
Phillip Levine
Douglas Staiger

Abortion Legalization and Child Living Circumstances: Who is the "Marginal Child?"

w6031 Sanders Korenman
David Neumark

Cohort Crowding and Youth Labor Markets: A Cross-National Analysis

w6026 John Shea
Does Parents' Money Matter?

w6012 Richard B. Freeman
Spurts in Union Growth: Defining Moments and Social Processes

w6010 Joseph G. Altonji
Nicolas Williams

Do Wages Rise with Job Seniority? A Reassessment

w6003 Jeff Grogger
Local Violence, Educational Attainment, and Teacher Pay

w5992 Richard J. Murnane
John B. Willett
Kathryn Parker Boudett

Does Acquisition of a GED Lead to More Training, Post-Secondary Education, and Military Service for School Dropouts?

w5988 Richard V. Burkhauser
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Stephen E. Rhody

Labor Earnings Mobility and Inequality in the United States and Germany During the Growth Years of the 1980s

w5985 Janet Currie
Jonathan Gruber

The Technology of Birth: Health Insurance, Medical Interventions, and Infant Health

w5983 Jeff Grogger
Market Wages and Youth Crime

w5973 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Stephen J. Trejo

The Demand for Hours of Labor: Direct Evidence from California

w5964 Cecilia Elena Rouse
Private School Vouchers and Student Achievement: An Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program

w5956 David H. Autor
Lawrence F. Katz
Alan B. Krueger

Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor Market?

w5941 Ann P. Bartel
Nachum Sicherman

Technological Change and Wages: An Inter-Industry Analysis

w5940 James D. Adams
Technology, Trade, and Wages

w5931 David S. Salkever
Marisa E. Domino

Within Group "Structural" Tests of Labor-Market Discrimination: A Study of Persons with Serious Disabilities

w5927 David Card
Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration

w5924 Alan B. Krueger
Labor Market Shifts and the Price Puzzle Revisited

w5917 Martin Feldstein
Employment Policy of the Middle Reagan Years: What Didn't Happen and Why It Didn't Happen

w5912 Alan L. Gustman
Olivia S. Mitchell
Andrew A. Samwick
Thomas L. Steinmeier

Pension and Social Security Wealth in the Health and Retirement Study

w5903 Claudia Goldin
Cecilia Rouse

Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians

w5899 Rosella Gardecki
David Neumark

Order from Chaos? The Effects of Early Labor Market Experiences on Adult Labor Market Outcomes

w5891 Alan B. Krueger
Helen Levy

Accounting for the Slowdown in Employer Health Care Costs

w5889 Katherine Baicker
Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

A Distinctive System: Origins and Impact of U.S. Unemployment Compensation

w5888 Joshua D. Angrist
Victor Lavy

Using Maimonides' Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Student Achievement

w5881 David M. Cutler
Edward L. Glaeser
Jacob L. Vigdor

The Rise and Decline of the American Ghetto

w5869 Morris M. Kleiner
Robert T. Kudrle

Does Regulation Affect Economic Outcomes?: The Case of Dentistry


1996
w5867 Ashley S. Timmer
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Racism, Xenophobia or Markets? The Political Economy of Immigration Policy Prior to the Thirties

w5866 Jonathan Gruber
Disability Insurance Benefits and Labor Supply

w5855 Daniel S. Hamermesh
The Timing of Work Time Over Time

w5846 Sherwin Rosen
Manufactured Inequality

w5837 Rachel M. Friedberg
You Can't Take It With You? Immigrant Assimilation and the Portability of Human Capital

w5835 John Bound
David A. Jaeger

On the Validity of Season of Birth as an Instrument in Wage Equations: A Comment on Angrist & Krueger's "Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Scho

w5831 Jonathan Gruber
Health Insurance for Poor Women and Children in the U.S.: Lessons from the Past Decade

w5829 Jorn-Steffen Pischke
Continuous Training in Germany

w5823 Jacob Mincer
Changes in Wage Inequality, 1970-1990

w5822 Olivier Blanchard
Lawrence F. Katz

What We Know and Do Not Know About the Natural Rate of Unemployment

w5807 Joshua D. Angrist
Victor Lavy

The Effect of Teen Childbearing and Single Parenthood on Childhood Disabilities and Progress in School

w5805 Janet Currie
Duncan Thomas

Does Head Start Help Hispanic Children?

w5802 Canice Prendergast
What Happens Within Firms? A Survey of Empirical Evidence on Compensation Policies

w5781 David E. Bloom
Cecilia Conrad
Cynthia Miller

Child Support and Fathers' Remarriage and Fertility

w5778 Joshua D. Angrist
William N. Evans

Children and Their Parents' Labor Supply: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size

w5769 Alan B. Krueger
Do Markets Respond More to More Reliable Labor Market Data? A Test of Market Rationality

w5765 Canice Prendergast
Lars A. Stole

Non-Monetary Exchange Within Firms and Industry

w5763 Geoffrey Carliner
The Wages and Language Skills of U.S. Immigrants

w5738 Jonathan Gruber
Cash Welfare as a Consumption Smoothing Mechanism for Single Mothers

w4798 Roland Benabou
Education, Income Distribution and Growth: The Local Connection

w4678 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

International Differences in Male Wage Inequality: Institutions versus Market Forces

t0204 Gary Chamberlain
Guido W. Imbens

Hierarchical Bayes Models with Many Instrumental Variables

t0203 Steven N. Durlauf
Statistical Mechanics Approaches to Socioeconomic Behavior

w5733 David Neumark
Rosella Gardecki

Women Helping Women? Role-Model and Mentoring Effects on Female Ph.D. Student in Economics

w5729 Hao Li
Shewin Rosen

Unraveling in Assignment Markets

w5724 Jennifer Hunt
Has Work-Sharing Worked in Germany?

w5718 Michael Kremer
Eric Maskin

Wage Inequality and Segregation by Skill

w5716 Jennifer Hunt
The Response of Wages and Actual Hours Worked to the Reductions of Standard Hours

w5708 David Card
Alan Krueger

School Resources and Student Outcomes: An Overview of the Literature and New Evidence from North and South Carolina

w5707 Olivia Mitchell
Jan Olson
Thomas Steinmeier

Construction of the Earnings and Benefits File (EBF) for Use With the Health and Retirement Survey

w5701 David Card
Philip K. Robins

Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Self-Sufficiency Project

t0202 Guido W. Imbens
Judith K. Hellerstein

Imposing Moment Restrictions from Auxiliary Data by Weighting

t0200 Gary Chamberlain
Guido W. Imbens

Nonparametric Applications of Bayesian Inference

w5690 Jeff Dominitz
Charles F. Manski

Perceptions of Economic Insecurity: Evidence from the Survey of Economic Expectations

w5688 Christopher J. Ruhm
The Economic Consequences of Parental Leave Mandates: Lessons from Europe

w5687 David Card
Deregulation and Labor Earnings in the Airline Industry

w5685 John Bound
Harry J. Holzer

Demand Shifts, Population Adjustments, and Labor Market Outcomes during the 1980s

w5679 Lawrence F. Katz
Wage Subsidies for the Disadvantaged

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