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The Risks and Benefits of School Integration for Participating Students: Evidence from a Randomized Desegregation Program

Bergman, Peter - 2018

This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority students to transfer to seven school districts serving higher-income, predominantly-white families. While prior research has studied the impacts of such a program receiving students, this paper studies...

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Housing Search Frictions: Evidence from Detailed Search Data and a Field Experiment

Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric; Kapor, Adam - 2020

This paper shows that imperfect information about school quality causes low-income families to live in neighborhoods with lower-performing, more segregated schools. We randomized the addition of school quality information onto a nationwide website of housing listings for families with housing...

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Using Predictive Analytics to Track Students: Evidence from a Seven-College Experiment

Bergman, Peter; Kopko, Elizabeth; Rodriguez, Julio - 2021

Tracking is widespread in U.S. education. In post-secondary education alone, at least 71% of colleges use a test to track students. However, there are concerns that the most frequently used college placement exams lack validity and reliability, and unnecessarily place students from...

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School's Out: Experimental Evidence on Limiting Learning Loss Using "Low-Tech" in a Pandemic

Angrist, Noam; Bergman, Peter; Matsheng, Moitshepi - 2020

Schools closed extensively during the COVID-19 pandemic and occur in other settings, such as teacher strikes and natural disasters. This paper provides some of the first experimental evidence on strategies to minimize learning loss when schools close. We run a randomized trial of low-technology...

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Within and Between Firm Trends in Job Polarization: Role of Globalization and Technology

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Maczulskij, Terhi; Maliranta, Mika - 2016

This paper analyzes occupational polarization within and across firms using comprehensive matched employer-employee panel data from Finland. The occupational distribution in Finland has been polarizing over the last few decades, with mid-level production and clerical jobs eroding while low-skill...

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Business Owners, Employees and Firm Performance

Maliranta, Mika; Nurmi, Satu - 2016

firm. This can be interpreted as evidence of knowledge spillover through labor mobility. Strikingly, firms established in …

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to...

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Does gender of firm ownership matter? Female entrepreneurs and the gender pay gap

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Maliranta, Mika; Nippala, Veera; … - 2024

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Innovation, Firm Risk and Industry Productivity

Maliranta, Mika; Määttänen, Niku - 2014

Radical innovations require risk-taking. However, it is hard to find an objective measure for innovation investments … that would take riskiness into account. In this paper, we investigate how a simple measure of firms’ innovation investments …. We then build a simple model where firms’ innovation activities and firm risk are interrelated. We use the model to …

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