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We attempt to make inferences about the elasticity of the government's demand for specific weapons by analyzing the statistical relationship between quantity and cost revisions across the population of major weapon systems, using data contained in the Pentagon's Selected Acquisition Reports. The...
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We investigate whether local average treatment effects (LATE's) can be extrapolated to new settings. We extend the analysis and framework of Dehejia, Pop-Eleches, and Samii (2015), which examines the external validity of the Angrist-Evans (1998) reduced-form natural experiment of having two...
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Workplace drug testing programs are becoming increasingly more common although there is little research demonstrating … workplace drug- testing policy implemented by the military in 1981. The military's policy incorporates random drug testing of …
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This paper evaluates a class of endogenous job destruction models based on how well they explain the observed experiences of displaced workers. We show that pure reallocation models in which relationship-specific productivity drifts downward over time are difficult to reconcile with the evidence...
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that it is a cluster of complementary changes involving IT, workplace organization and services that is the key skill …-biased technical change. We examine new firm-level data linking several indicators of IT use, workplace organization, and the demand … complementarity. IT use is complementary to a new workplace organization which includes broader job responsibilities for line workers …
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Were workers more likely to be infected by COVID-19 in their workplace, or outside it? While both economic models of … the pandemic and public health policy recommendations often presume that the workplace is less safe, this paper seeks an …
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We use data from a large web-based job platform to study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market. In the platform, workers from around the world compete for jobs that can be done remotely. We document that, despite the global nature of the marketplace, the...
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Why is workplace sexual harassment chronically underreported? We hypothesize that employers coerce victims into silence … economic incentives for victims of workplace sexual harassment to remain silent. We find the selectivity of sexual harassment …
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households have heterogenous preferences over workplace-residence pairs. We provide a general characterization of equilibrium …
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We investigate the impact of computerization of white-collar jobs on wages and employment. Using online job postings from 2007 and 2010--2016 for office and administrative support (OAS) jobs, we show that when firms adopt new software at the job-title level they increase the skills required of...
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