We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the … find that motherhood is associated with low research productivity. Nor do we find a statistically significant unconditional … effect of a first child on research productivity. Conditional difference-in-differences estimates, however, suggest that the …

productivity depends on their age through the build-up of labour market experience and the depreciation of human capital. We make … wisdom following an increase in longevity, depending on the corresponding change in the age-productivity profile …

This paper analyzes the impact of internet adoption on labor productivity in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing … productivity; (ii) reallocates employment away from temporary administrative workers and non-remunerated workers and expands …

workers, firms, and occupations with a focus on peer effects in wages rather than productivity. Our estimation strategy … — which links the average permanent productivity of workers’ peers to their wages — circumvents the reflection problem and … contrast, we find larger peer effects, about half the size of those identified in similar studies on productivity …

We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co …