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Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial
Blau, Francine; Currie, Janet; Croson, Rachel; Ginther, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
effectiveness. We present data from a randomized controlled trial of a mentoring program for female economists organized by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008627149
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The Macro-Foundations of Microeconomics: Initial Labor Market Conditions and Long-Term Outcomes for Economists
Oyer, Paul - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
macroeconomic risk. Given the importance of general human capital and the relative ease of publicly observing productivity in … placement, and long-term outcomes for PhD economists from seven programs. Using macro conditions as an instrument for initial … initial placement increases research productivity, which helps to limit the set of economic models that can explain the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718854
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Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration
Freeman, Richard B.; Ganguli, Ina; Murciano-Goroff, Raviv - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper examines international and domestic collaborations using data from an original survey of corresponding authors and Web of Science data of articles that had at least one US coauthor in the fields of Particle and Field Physics, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Biotechnology and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271483
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Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors
Bertrand, Marianne; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This paper assesses the relative importance of various explanations for the gender gap in career outcomes for highly-educated workers in the U.S. corporate and financial sectors. The careers of MBAs, who graduated between 1990 and 2006 from a top U.S. business school, are studied to understand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828576
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How Much Do Medical Students Know About Physician Income?
Nicholson, Sean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
Twenty-five cohorts of medical students were asked in their first and fourth year of school to estimate contemporaneous physician income in six different specialties. The students' income estimation errors varied systematically over time and cross-sectionally by specialty and type of student....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829418
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Peer Effects in the Workplace: Evidence from Random Groupings in Professional Golf Tournaments
Guryan, Jonathan; Kroft, Kory; Notowidigdo, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper uses the random assignment of playing partners in professional golf tournaments to test for peer effects in the workplace. We find no evidence that the ability of playing partners affects the performance of professional golfers, contrary to recent evidence on peer effects in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830009
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The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies
Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Hierarchies allow individuals to leverage their knowledge through others' time. This mechanism increases productivity …-Hansberg (2006) to assess how much lawyers' productivity and the distribution of earnings across lawyers reflects lawyers' ability to … productivity and earnings distributions in this industry is substantial but not dramatic, reflecting the fact that the problems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777277
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The Cost of Primary Care Doctors
Glied, Sherry A.; Prabhu, Ashwin; Edelman, Norman H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
capital consists of the underlying human capital (productivity) of those who become physicians and the job … by forecasting an age-earnings profile for doctors based on the characteristics in youth of NLSY cohort participants who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778083
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Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of "Independent" Directors
Frazzini, Andrea; Cohen, Lauren; Malloy, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We provide evidence that firms appoint independent directors who are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, micro-level data on their views regarding the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061558
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Ability and Employer Learning: Evidence from the Economist Labor Market
Oyer, Paul - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
institution affects productivity. I present evidence that employers improve their estimates of economists' ability early in their …I study the human capital development and firm-worker matching processes for PhD economists. This group is useful for … this purpose because the types of jobs they hold can be easily categorized and they have an observable productivity measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050183