NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

NBER Papers in Labor Studies


2012
w17814 Johannes F. Schmieder
Till M. von Wachter
Stefan Bender

The Long-Term Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Employment

w17813 Johannes F. Schmieder
Till M. von Wachter
Stefan Bender

The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates Over Twenty Years

w17804 Robert W. Fairlie
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training

w17803 Gregory F. Branch
Eric A. Hanushek
Steven G. Rivkin

Estimating the Effect of Leaders on Public Sector Productivity: The Case of School Principals

w17800 George J. Borjas
Kirk B. Doran

The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians

w17782 Steven J. Davis
R. Jason Faberman
John C. Haltiwanger

Recruiting Intensity during and after the Great Recession: National and Industry Evidence

w17781 Silvia H. Barcellos
Leandro Carvalho
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Child Gender And Parental Investments In India: Are Boys And Girls Treated Differently?

w17755 Charles F. Manski
Identification of Preferences and Evaluation of Income Tax Policy

w17733 Aaron J. Sojourner
Robert J. Town
David C. Grabowski
Michelle M. Chen

Impacts of Unionization on Employment, Product Quality and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence From Nursing Homes

w17752 Roland G. Fryer
Jr

Aligning Student, Parent, and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from Houston Public Schools

w17745 Douglas L. Kruse
Joseph R. Blasi
Richard B. Freeman

Does Linking Worker Pay to Firm Performance Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?

w17744 Judith Scott-Clayton
What Explains Trends in Labor Supply Among U.S. Undergraduates, 1970-2009?

w17742 Lars-Alexander Kuehn
Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau
Lu Zhang

An Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Labor Market Search

w17737 Dean Karlan
Margaret A. McConnell

Hey Look at Me: The Effect of Giving Circles on Giving

w17730 Eric A. Hanushek
Kuzey Yilmaz

Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education

w17727 Verónica C. Frisancho Robles
Kala Krishna

Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India: Targeting, Catch Up, and Mismatch

w17726 Raymond Fisman
Nikolaj A. Harmon
Emir Kamenica
Inger Munk

Labor Supply of Politicians

w17722 C. Kirabo Jackson
Do High-School Teachers Really Matter?

w17721 Wei Chi
Richard B. Freeman
Hongbin Li

Adjusting to Really Big Changes: The Labor Market in China, 1989-2009

w17720 Scott A. Imberman
Adriana D. Kugler

The Effect of Providing Breakfast on Student Performance: Evidence from an In-Class Breakfast Program


2011
w17715 Maya Rossin-Slater
Christopher J. Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel

The Effects of California’s Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers’ Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

w17710 David J. Deming
Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz

The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?

w17704 Alexander M. Gelber
Adam Isen

Children’s Schooling and Parents’ Investment in Children: Evidence from the Head Start Impact Study

w17701 William R. Kerr
Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

w17699 Raj Chetty
John N. Friedman
Jonah E. Rockoff

The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood

w17697 David H. Autor
The Unsustainable Rise of the Disability Rolls in the United States: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options

w17694 David Card
Ana Rute Cardoso

Can Compulsory Military Service Increase Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal

w17690 Verónica Amarante
Marco Manacorda
Edward Miguel
Andrea Vigorito

Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data

w17683 Antonio Ciccone
Giovanni Peri

Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from US States 1950-1990

w17678 Janice Compton
Robert A. Pollak

Family Proximity, Childcare, and Women's Labor Force Attachment

w17671 Fernando Ferreira
Joseph Gyourko

Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors

w17667 Marianne Bitler
Hilary W. Hoynes

Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net

w17657 Ann Huff Stevens
Douglas L. Miller
Marianne E. Page
Mateusz Filipski

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Understanding Pro-cyclical Mortality

w17654 Casey B. Mulligan
The Expanding Social Safety Net

w17649 Jungmin Lee
Daiji Kawaguchi
Daniel S. Hamermesh

Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time

w17638 Steven J. Davis
Till M. von Wachter

Recessions and the Cost of Job Loss

w17636 Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Robert Slonim

Rewarding Altruism? A Natural Field Experiment

w17633 Martha J. Bailey
Susan M. Dynarski

Gains and Gaps: Changing Inequality in U.S. College Entry and Completion

w17632 Will Dobbie
Roland G. Fryer
Jr

Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City

w17629 Emily Oster
Ira Shoulson
E. Ray Dorsey

Optimal Expectations and Limited Medical Testing: Evidence from Huntington Disease

w17623 Gautam Bose
Kevin Lang

A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets

w17622 Fatih Guvenen
Macroeconomics With Heterogeneity: A Practical Guide

w17609 Ethan G. Lewis
Immigrant-Native Substitutability: The Role of Language Ability

w17607 Orley C. Ashenfelter
Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar’s Grand Pursuit: the Story of Economic Genius

w17606 Alex Edmans
Itay Goldstein
John Y. Zhu

Contracting With Synergies

w17605 Naci H. Mocan
Bulent Unel

Skill-biased Technological Change, Earnings of Unskilled Workers, and Crime

w17604 James Harrigan
Ariell Reshef

Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium

w17600 John Cawley
Asako S. Moriya
Kosali I. Simon

The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession

w17596 Ejaz Ghani
William R. Kerr
Stephen D. O'Connell

Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

w17591 Eric A. Hanushek
Susanne Link
Ludger Woessmann

Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

w17589 Daniel M. Hungerman
Substitution and Stigma: Evidence on Religious Competition from the Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal

w17577 William R. Kerr
William F. Lincoln
Prachi Mishra

The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

w17570 Giovanni Peri
The Impact of Immigration on Native Poverty through Labor Market Competition

w17565 Risheng Mao
John Whalley

Ownership Characteristics, Real Exchange Rate Movements and Labor Market Adjustment in China

w17554 Paul W. Glewwe
Eric A. Hanushek
Sarah D. Humpage
Renato Ravina

School Resources and Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Review of the Literature from 1990 to 2010

w17547 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

How Did the Recession of 2007-2009 Affect the Wealth and Retirement of the Near Retirement Age Population in the Health and Retirement Study?

w17541 Marianne Bertrand
Jessica Pan

The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior

w17538 Kenneth T. Whelan
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Kevin F. Hallock
Ronald L. Seeber

Adverse Selection and Incentives in an Early Retirement Program

w17535 James B. Rebitzer
Mark E. Votruba

Organizational Economics and Physician Practices

w17534 Jesse Rothstein
Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession

w17533 Susan Dynarski
Joshua M. Hyman
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion

w17529 Robert A. Pollak
Allocating Time: Individuals' Technologies, Household Technology, Perfect Substitutes, and Specialization

w17519 Michal Kolesár
Raj Chetty
John N. Friedman
Edward L. Glaeser
Guido W. Imbens

Identification and Inference with Many Invalid Instruments

w17508 Raquel Fernández
Joyce Cheng Wong

The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education Choices and Women's Work

w17505 Vasily Kartashov
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Ralph Rogalla

Lifecycle Portfolio Choice with Systematic Longevity Risk and Variable Investment-Linked Deferred Annuities

w17504 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann
Lei Zhang

General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

w17496 David Hummels
Rasmus Jørgensen
Jakob R. Munch
Chong Xiang

The Wage Effects of Offshoring: Evidence from Danish Matched Worker-Firm Data

w17494 Roland G. Fryer
Jr

Injecting Successful Charter School Strategies into Traditional Public Schools: Early Results from an Experiment in Houston

w17485 Lisa J. Dettling
Melissa Schettini Kearney

House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby

w17477 Lars Lefgren
Brennan Platt
Joseph Price

Sticking with What (Barely) Worked

w17474 Ann P. Bartel
Ciaran S. Phibbs
Nancy Beaulieu
Patricia Stone

Human Capital and Organizational Performance: Evidence from the Healthcare Sector

w17472 Craig E. Landry
Andreas Lange
John A. List
Michael K. Price
Nicholas G. Rupp

Is There a 'Hidden Cost of Control' in Naturally-Occurring Markets? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

w17467 David Neumark
Joanne Song

Do Stronger Age Discrimination Laws Make Social Security Reforms More Effective?

w17465 Daniel Gottlieb
Kent Smetters

Grade Non-Disclosure

w17462 Roland G. Fryer
Jr
Devah Pager
Jörg L. Spenkuch

Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages

w17461 George J. Borjas
Jeffrey Grogger
Gordon H. Hanson

Substitution Between Immigrants, Natives, and Skill Groups

w17453 Peter J. Kuhn
Kailing Shen

Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Theory and Evidence

w17450 Kevin Lang
Jee-Yeon K. Lehmann

Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics

w17449 Xavier Giné
Jessica Goldberg
Dean Yang

Credit Market Consequences of Improved Personal Identification: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi

w17441 Albert N. Link
Christopher J. Ruhm

Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent

w17439 Alan L. Gustman
Thomas L. Steinmeier
Nahid Tabatabai

The Effects of Changes in Women's Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula

w17438 David J. Deming
Justine S. Hastings
Thomas J. Kane
Douglas O. Staiger

School Choice, School Quality and Postsecondary Attainment

w17435 Lance Lochner
Alexander Monge-Naranjo

Credit Constraints in Education

w17420 Lee E. Ohanian
Andrea Raffo

Aggregate Hours Worked in OECD Countries: New Measurement and Implications for Business Cycles

w17408 Alan I. Barreca
Jason M. Lindo
Glen R. Waddell

Heaping-Induced Bias in Regression-Discontinuity Designs

w17406 Gregory J. Colman
Dhaval M. Dave

Exercise, Physical Activity, and Exertion over the Business Cycle

w17402 Will Dobbie
Roland G. Fryer
Jr

The Impact of Youth Service on Future Outcomes: Evidence from Teach For America

w17399 Steven J. Davis
John C. Haltiwanger
Ron S. Jarmin
Josh Lerner
Javier Miranda

Private Equity and Employment

w17381 Robert Fairlie
Florian Hoffmann
Philip Oreopoulos

A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

w17373 Amil Petrin
Jagadeesh Sivadasan

Estimating Lost Output from Allocative Inefficiency, with an Application to Chile and Firing Costs

w17372 Naércio Aquino Menezes-Filho
Marc-Andreas Muendler

Labor Reallocation in Response to Trade Reform

w17349 Claudia Olivetti
Barbara Petrongolo

Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

w17345 John Beshears
James J. Choi
David Laibson
Brigitte C. Madrian
Katherine L. Milkman

The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions

w17343 Martha J. Bailey
Reexamining the Impact of Family Planning Programs on U.S. Fertility: Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X

w17340 Soohyung Lee
Muriel Niederle
Hye-Rim Kim
Woo-Keum Kim

Propose with a Rose? Signaling in Internet Dating Markets

w17337 Elisabetta Gentile
Scott A. Imberman

Dressed for Success? The Effect of School Uniforms on Student Achievement and Behavior

w17336 C. Fritz Foley
William R. Kerr

Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity

w17332 Joshua D. Angrist
Parag A. Pathak
Christopher R. Walters

Explaining Charter School Effectiveness

w17327 Daniel S. Hamermesh
Jason Abrevaya

"Beauty Is the Promise of Happiness"?

w17326 Jeff Biddle
Daniel S. Hamermesh

Cycles of Wage Discrimination

w17320 Dayanand S. Manoli
Andrea Weber

Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions

w17313 Kyle F. Herkenhoff
Lee E. Ohanian

Labor Market Dysfunction During the Great Recession

w17310 Janet Currie
Erdal Tekin

Is the Foreclosure Crisis Making Us Sick?

w17307 Raven Molloy
Christopher L. Smith
Abigail K. Wozniak

Internal Migration in the United States

w17303 Carola Frydman
Raven Molloy

Pay Cuts for the Boss: Executive Compensation in the 1940s

w17297 Radha Iyengar
Jonathan Monten
Matthew Hanson

Building Peace: The Impact of Aid on the Labor Market for Insurgents

w17294 Steven J. Davis
Jason Faberman
John C. Haltiwanger

Labor Market Flows in the Cross Section and Over Time

w17287 Jeffrey B. Liebman
Erzo F.P. Luttmer

Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence From a Field Experiment

w17286 Will Dobbie
Roland G. Fryer
Jr.

Exam High Schools and Academic Achievement: Evidence from New York City

w17275 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women

w17274 Laurence M. Ball
Nicolás De Roux
Marc Hofstetter

Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean

w17270 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Melvin Stephens Jr.

Employment, Wages and Voter Turnout

w17264 Atila Abdulkadiroglu
Joshua D. Angrist
Parag A. Pathak

The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools

w17259 Mark A. Aguiar
Erik Hurst
Loukas Karabarbounis

Time Use During Recessions

w17248 James A. Levinsohn
Todd Pugatch

Prospective Analysis of a Wage Subsidy for Cape Town Youth

w17241 Francine D. Blau
Lawrence M. Kahn

The Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to Cross-Sectional Data Collection

w17235 Ilyana Kuziemko
Human Capital Spillovers in Families: Do Parents Learn from or Lean on their Children?

w17234 Ilyana Kuziemko
Ryan W. Buell
Taly Reich
Michael I. Norton

"Last-place Aversion": Evidence and Redistributive Implications

w17231 Nicholas Bloom
Helena Schweiger
John Van Reenen

The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries

w17225 C. Kirabo Jackson
School Competition and Teacher Labor Markets: Evidence from Charter School Entry in North Carolina

w17223 Cathy J. Bradley
David Neumark
Meryl I. Motika

The Effects of Health Shocks on Employment and Health Insurance: The Role of Employer-Provided Health Insurance

w17218 Philippe Belley
Marc Frenette
Lance Lochner

Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. and Canada: What Role for Financial Aid Policy?

w17213 David Neumark
Hans P. Johnson
Marisol Cuellar Mejia

Future Skill Shortages in the U.S. Economy?

w17198 Carrie H. Colla
William H. Dow
Arindrajit Dube

The Labor Market Impact of Employer Health Benefit Mandates: Evidence from San Francisco’s Health Care Security Ordinance

w17194 Gadi Barlevy
Derek Neal

Pay for Percentile

w17192 Efraim Benmelech
Nittai K. Bergman
Ricardo Enriquez

Negotiating with Labor Under Financial Distress

w17180 John F. Helliwell
Shun Wang

Weekends and Subjective Well-Being

w17187 Michael C. Burda
Jennifer Hunt

What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?

w17186 Konrad B. Burchardi
Tarek Alexander Hassan

The Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification

w17185 Ama Baafra Abeberese
Todd J. Kumler
Leigh L. Linden

Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines

w17173 Kory Kroft
Matthew J. Notowidigdo

Should Unemployment Insurance Vary With the Unemployment Rate? Theory and Evidence

w17167 Matthew J. Notowidigdo
The Incidence of Local Labor Demand Shocks

w17164 Richard V. Burkhauser
Jeff Larrimore
Kosali I. Simon

A "Second Opinion" on the Economic Health of the American Middle Class

w17159 Stacy Dale
Alan B. Krueger

Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data

w17157 Melissa Schettini Kearney
Phillip B. Levine

Income Inequality and Early Non-Marital Childbearing: An Economic Exploration of the "Culture of Despair"

w17156 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Jonathan Guryan

Studying Discrimination: Fundamental Challenges and Recent Progress

w17144 Efraim Benmelech
Nittai K. Bergman
Amit Seru

Financing Labor

w17139 Francesco D'Amuri
Giovanni Peri

Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection: Evidence from Europe

w17135 Liana E. Fox
Wen-Jui Han
Christopher Ruhm
Jane Waldfogel

Time for Children: Trends in the Employment Patterns of Parents, 1967-2009

w17134 Jingjing Chai
Raimond Maurer
Olivia S. Mitchell
Ralph Rogalla

Lifecycle Impacts of the Financial and Economic Crisis on Household Optimal Consumption, Portfolio Choice, and Labor Supply

w17119 Eric P. Bettinger
Brent J. Evans
Devin G. Pope

Improving College Performance and Retention the Easy Way: Unpacking the ACT Exam

w17100 Nune Hovhannisyan
Wolfgang Keller

International Business Travel: An Engine of Innovation?

w17098 Alberto F. Alesina
Paola Giuliano
Nathan Nunn

On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough

w17097 John D. Griffin
David Nickerson
Abigail K. Wozniak

Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion: Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game

w17093 Ran Abramitzky
Victor Lavy

How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Redistribution Policies and in Returns

w17089 Sa A. Bui
Steven G. Craig
Scott A. Imberman

Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea? Assessing the Impact of Gifted and Talented Programs on Achievement

w17088 David Card
Laura Giuliano

Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Risky Behavior of Friends

w17081 John Cawley
Christopher Ruhm

The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors

w17079 Axel H. Boersch-Supan
Hendrik Juerges

Disability, Pension Reform and Early Retirement in Germany

w17056 Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Money and Happiness: Evidence from the Industry Wage Structure

w17055 Luc Behaghel
Didier Blanchet
Thierry Debrand
Muriel Roger

Disability and Social Security Reforms: The French Case

w17053 Klaas de Vos
Arie Kapteyn
Adriaan Kalwij

Disability Insurance and Labor Market Exit Routes of Older Workers in The Netherlands

w17051 Suresh Naidu
Noam Yuchtman

Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain

w17047 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Ulrike Malmendier

The Role of Theory in Field Experiments

w17043 John P. Conley
Mario J. Crucini
Robert A. Driskill
Ali Sina Onder

Incentives and the Effects of Publication Lags on Life Cycle Research Productivity in Economics

w17042 Yonatan Ben-Shalom
Robert A. Moffitt
John Karl Scholz

An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States

w17041 Erik Hurst
Benjamin Wild Pugsley

What Do Small Businesses Do?

w17040 Henry S. Farber
Job Loss in the Great Recession: Historical Perspective from the Displaced Workers Survey, 1984-2010

w17039 Lance Lochner
Enrico Moretti

Estimating and Testing Non-Linear Models Using Instrumental Variables

w16989 Stefano DellaVigna
Ruben Enikolopov
Vera Mironova
Maria Petrova
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Unintended Media Effects in a Conflict Environment: Serbian Radio and Croatian Nationalism

w17016 Joseph P. Ferrie
Karen Rolf

Socioeconomic Status in Childhood and Health After Age 70: A New Longitudinal Analysis for the U.S., 1895-2005

w17014 Markus M. Mobius
Muriel Niederle
Paul Niehaus
Tanya S. Rosenblat

Managing Self-Confidence: Theory and Experimental Evidence

w17004 Joshua S. Graff Zivin
Matthew J. Neidell

The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity

w16986 Judith K. Hellerstein
David Neumark

Employment in Black Urban Labor Markets: Problems and Solutions

w16969 Liran Einav
Amy Finkelstein
Stephen P. Ryan
Paul Schrimpf
Mark R. Cullen

Selection on Moral Hazard in Health Insurance

w16968 Jed Kolko
David Neumark
Marisol Cuellar Mejia

Public Policy, State Business Climates, and Economic Growth

w16966 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson

Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment"

w16949 Erik Snowberg
Justin Wolfers
Eric Zitzewitz

How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies

w16932 Daria Burnes
David Neumark
Michelle J. White

Fiscal Zoning and Sales Taxes: Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead to More Retailing and Less Manufacturing?

w16928 Bryan S. Graham
Cristine Campos de Xavier Pinto
Daniel Egel

Efficient Estimation of Data Combination Models by the Method of Auxiliary-to-Study Tilting (AST)

w16918 Josh Lerner
Ulrike Malmendier

With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship

w16912 J. William Ambrosini
Karin Mayr
Giovanni Peri
Dragos Radu

The Selection of Migrants and Returnees: Evidence from Romania and Implications

w16902 Radha Iyengar
Giulia Ferrari

Discussion Sessions Coupled with Microfinancing May Enhance the Role of Women in Household Decision-Making in Burundi

w16901 James A. Levinsohn
Zoë McLaren
Olive Shisana
Khangelani Zuma

HIV Status and Labor Market Participation in South Africa

w16895 Barbara M. Fraumeni
Human Capital Accounts: Choice of Rates and Construction of Volume Indices

w16891 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle

w16888 Shamena Anwar
Hanming Fang

Testing for the Role of Prejudice in Emergency Departments Using Bounceback Rates

w16885 Victor Lavy
What Makes an Effective Teacher? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

w16880 Steve Cicala
Roland G. Fryer
Jr.
Jörg L. Spenkuch

A Roy Model of Social Interactions

w16876 Wehn-Jyuan Tsai
Jin-Tan Liu
Shin-Yi Chou
Michael Grossman

Intergeneration Transfer of Human Capital: Results from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan

w16866 David Neumark
Policies to Encourage Job Creation: Hiring Credits vs. Worker Subsidies

w16865 Scott E. Carrell
Bruce I. Sacerdote
James E. West

From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Lucas Critique Meets Peer Effects

w16856 Victor Lavy
Alexander Zablotsky

Mother’s Schooling and Fertility under Low Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

w16853 Jeremy T. Fox
Valérie Smeets

Does Input Quality Drive Measured Differences in Firm Productivity?

w16850 Roland G. Fryer
Teacher Incentives and Student Achievement: Evidence from New York City Public Schools

w16846 Michael Baker
Industrial Actions in Schools: Strikes and Student Achievement

w16829 John F. Helliwell
Haifang Huang

New Measures of the Costs of Unemployment: Evidence from the Subjective Well-Being of 2.3 Million Americans

w16817 C. Kirabo Jackson
Single-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, and Course Selection: Evidence from Rule-Based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago

w16814 Peter Cappelli
Martin J. Conyon

Stock Option Exercise and Gift Exchange Relationships: Evidence for a Large US Company

w16813 Yaw Nyarko
The Returns to the Brain Drain and Brain Circulation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Computations Using Data from Ghana

w16812 Carola Frydman
Raven S. Molloy

Does Tax Policy Affect Executive Compensation? Evidence from Postwar Tax Reforms

w16802 Mimi Engel
Brian A. Jacob

New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply

w16800 Shang-Jin Wei
Xiaobo Zhang

Sex Ratios, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth in the People’s Republic of China

w16798 Janet Currie
Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences

w16797 Jan K. Brueckner
David Neumark

Beaches, Sunshine, and Public-Sector Pay: Theory and Evidence on Amenities and Rent Extraction by Government Workers

w16794 G. Brant Morefield
David C. Ribar
Christopher J. Ruhm

Occupational Status and Health Transitions

w16783 Parag A. Pathak
Tayfun Sönmez

School Admissions Reform in Chicago and England: Comparing Mechanisms by Their Vulnerability to Manipulation

w16773 Jin Young Lee
Gary Solon

The Fragility of Estimated Effects of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates

w16769 Robert J. Barro
Rachel M. McCleary

Saints Marching In, 1590-2009

w16751 Bruce D. Meyer
James X. Sullivan

Consumption and Income Poverty over the Business Cycle

w16748 Kerwin Kofi Charles
Erik Hurst
Alexandra Killewald

Marital Sorting and Parental Wealth

w16746 Vilsa E. Curto
Roland G. Fryer
Jr.

Estimating the Returns to Urban Boarding Schools: Evidence from SEED

w16740 Justine S. Hastings
Olivia S. Mitchell

How Financial Literacy and Impatience Shape Retirement Wealth and Investment Behaviors

w16736 Sari Pekkala Kerr
William R. Kerr

Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

w16730 Kevin Lang
Erez Siniver

Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel

w16729 Raj Chetty
Adam Guren
Dayanand S. Manoli
Andrea Weber

Does Indivisible Labor Explain the Difference Between Micro and Macro Elasticities? A Meta-Analysis of Extensive Margin Elasticities

w16722 Lance Lochner
Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship

w16717 Nicholas Bloom
Mirko Draca
John Van Reenen

Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity

w16710 Derek Neal
The Design of Performance Pay in Education

w16705 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Günther Fink

Implications of Population Aging for Economic Growth

w16671 Dalton Conley
Jennifer Heerwig

The War at Home: Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability

w16668 David G. Blanchflower
Andrew J. Oswald

International Happiness

w16664 Rucker C. Johnson
Long-run Impacts of School Desegregation & School Quality on Adult Attainments

w16663 Julie Berry Cullen
Mark C. Long
Randall Reback

Jockeying for Position: Strategic High School Choice Under Texas' Top Ten Percent Plan

w16658 Nicholas Bloom
Benn Eifert
Aprajit Mahajan
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Does Management Matter? Evidence from India


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