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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
12615 Francisca M. Antman
Brian Duncan
Incentives to Identify: A Comment
Antman and Duncan (2014, 2015) document how racial identity responds to state affirmative action policy. The main contribution of our work was to show that racial identity responds to state ...
(shorter version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (4), 742)
J15, I28, Z13
12614 Luyi Han
John V. Winters
Industry Fluctuations and College Major Choices: Evidence from an Energy Boom and Bust
This paper examines how college students in the United States altered their college major decisions during the energy boom and bust of the 1970s and 1980s. We focus on petroleum engineering and ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 77, 101996)
I20, J20, J60, R10
12613 Jing Liu
Monica Lee
Seth Gershenson
The Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Secondary School Absences
We provide novel evidence on the causal impact of student absences in middle and high school on state test scores, course grades, and educational attainment using a rich administrative dataset that ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 199, 104441)
I2
12612 Laura Barbieri
Chiara Mussida
Mariacristina Piva
Marco Vivarelli
Testing the Employment Impact of Automation, Robots and AI: A Survey and Some Methodological Issues
The present technological revolution, characterized by the pervasive and growing presence of robots, automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, is going to transform societies and ...
(published in: Zimmermann, K. (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, section: Technological Changes and the Labor Market, Springer, Cham, 2020)
O33
12611 Martin Abel
Do Workers Discriminate against Female Bosses?
I hire 2,700 workers for a transcription job, randomly assigning the gender of their (fictitious) manager and provision of performance feedback. While praise from a manager has no effect, criticism ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (2), 470 - 501)
J50, J70
12610 Enrico Moretti
The Effect of High-Tech Clusters on the Productivity of Top Inventors
The high-tech sector is increasingly concentrated in a small number of expensive cities, with the top ten cities in "Computer Science", "Semiconductors" and "Biology and Chemistry", accounting for ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (10), 3328 - 3375)
J01, R00
12609 Arnab K. Basu
Nancy H. Chau
Vidhya Soundararajan
Wage Fairness in a Subcontracted Labor Market
Labor market subcontracting is a global phenomenon. This paper presents a theory of wage fairness in a subcontracted labor market, where workers confront multi-party employment relationships and deep ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 168, 24 - 42)
J41, J48, O43
12608 Joni Hersch
Catching up Is Hard to Do: Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium
A commonly held perception is that an elite graduate degree can "scrub" a less prestigious but less costly undergraduate degree. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates from 2003 ...
(published in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2019, 10 (3), 503 - 553)
D61, I24, I26, J24, J31, J44
12607 Marco Caliendo
Maximilian Göthner
Martin Weißenberger
Entrepreneurial Persistence beyond Survival: Measurement and Determinants
Entrepreneurial persistence is demonstrated by an entrepreneur's continued positive maintenance of entrepreneurial motivation and constantly-renewed active engagement in a new business venture ...
(published in: Journal of Small Business Management, 2020, 58 (3), 617-647. )
L26, M13
12605 Laura M. Argys
Susan L. Averett
Muzhe Yang
Residential Noise Exposure and Health: Evidence from Aviation Noise and Birth Outcomes
Exploiting recent concentration of flight patterns under a new Federal Aviation Administration policy (called NextGen), we examine the impact of exposure to excessive noise levels on birth outcomes. ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2020, 103, 102343)
I10, I18, Q53, Q58, R11
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