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significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …
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, that are undesirable in the marriage market? We answer this question through two field experiments in an elite U.S. MBA …
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age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … sex. The pill also created a social multiplier effect by encouraging the delay of marriage generally and thus increasing a … of the striking coincidences in the timing of changes in career investment, marriage age, state laws, and pill use among …
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We develop and estimate a dynamic model to study the impact of student debt on education, career, and marriage market … marriage prospects, career prospects, and investments in educational quality of female lawyers. The analysis also provides new …
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Our paper contributes to the studies on the relationship between workers' human capital and their decision to become self-employed as well as their probability to survive as entrepreneurs. Analysis from a panel data set of research analysts in investment banks over 1988-1996 reveals that star...
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Machines increasingly replace people in routine job tasks. The remaining tasks require workers to make open-ended decisions and to have "soft" skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking and adaptability. This paper documents growing demand for decision-making and explores the consequences...
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Several studies find that there is little sex gap in wages at labor market entry, and that the sex gap in wages emerges (and grows) with time in the labor market. This evidence is consistent with (i) there is little or no sex discrimination in wages at labor market entry, and (ii) the emergence...
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Is lifetime inequality mainly due to differences across people established early in life or to differences in luck experienced over the working lifetime? We answer this question within a model that features idiosyncratic shocks to human capital, estimated directly from data, as well as...
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I ask generally whether a country can benefit from the temporary importation of human capital, and specifically whether a program that attracts large groups of academic visitors to a distant country benefits it by generating additional scholarly research on local issues. Using the list of...
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