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Hassler, John; Mora, Rodríguez; Vicente, José; Zeira, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

inequality. We show that the correlation between mobility and inequality depends on which factor caused the change in inequality …. The model can thus help discriminate between different competing explanations of the recent rise in US wage inequality … correlation between wage inequality and mobility. Public subsidies to education reduce inequality, but the effect on mobility is …

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Academic Performance and College Dropout: Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Estimate a Learning Model

Stinebrickner, Todd R.; Stinebrickner, Ralph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We estimate a dynamic learning model of the college dropout decision, taking advantage of unique expectations data to greatly reduce our reliance on assumptions that would otherwise be necessary for identification. We find that forty-five percent of the dropout that occurs in the first two...

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This Is Only a Test? Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Research increasingly shows that differences in endowments at birth need not be genetic but instead are influenced by environmental factors while the fetus is in the womb. In addition, these differences may persist well beyond childhood. In this paper, we study one such environmental factor -...

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Is There A Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline

Bailey, Martha J.; Guldi, Melanie E.; Hershbein, Brad J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

's educational achievement, and widening inequality in U.S. labor markets. …

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Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic co-authorship within the US

Freeman, Richard B.; Huang, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This study examines the ethnic identity of authors in over 2.5 million scientific papers written by US-based authors from 1985 to 2008, a period in which the frequency of English and European names among authors fell relative to the frequency of names from China and other developing countries....

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Matching Capital and Labor

Berk, Jonathan B.; Binsbergen, Jules H. van; Liu, Binying - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We establish an important role for the firm by studying capital reallocation decisions of mutual fund firms. At least 30% of the value mutual fund managers add can be attributed to the firm's role in efficiently allocating capital amongst its mutual fund managers. We find no evidence of a...

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Does Transparency Lead to Pay Compression?

Mas, Alexandre - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper asks whether disclosing wages to the public changes wage setting at the top of the public sector income distribution. I evaluate a 2010 California mandate that required cities to submit municipal salaries to the State, to be posted on a public website. City managers--typically the...

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The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias: Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up?

Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre; Niu, Xiaotong - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper documents that rotation group bias -- the tendency for labor force statistics to vary systematically by month in sample in labor force surveys -- in the Current Population Survey (CPS) has worsened considerably over time. The estimated unemployment rate for earlier rotation groups has...

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College as Country Club: Do Colleges Cater to Students' Preferences for Consumption?

McCall, Brian Mccall; Jacob, Brian; Stange, Kevin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper investigates whether demand-side market pressure explains colleges' decisions to provide consumption amenities to their students. We estimate a discrete choice model of college demand using micro data from the high school classes of 1992 and 2004, matched to extensive information on...

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The Value of Bosses

Lazear, Edward; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Stanton, Christopher T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper...

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