This study examines the determinants of the salaries of private college and university presidents. OLS estimates suggest that institutional size, performance and prestige are linked to presidents' compensation. Pay is for performance. Externally recruited presidents are paid more than those...

This paper considers the potential impact of medical school indebtedness and other variables on the propensity of US doctors to enter academic medicine. Probit models provide some evidence that indebtedness reduces the likelihood that physicians will choose academic medicine as their primary...

This paper assumes that migrants derive utility from their own consumption, their own leisure, and remittances to their family. It hypothesizes that the labor supply and remittances of Mexican migrants in the U.S. are jointly determined. Shits in real exchange rates affect the cost of sending a...