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No Revenge for Nerds? Evaluating the Careers of Ivy League Athletes
Amornsiripanitch, Natee; Gompers, Paul A.; Hu, George; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper compares the careers of Ivy League athletes to those of their non-athlete classmates. Combining team-level information on all Ivy League athletes from 1970 to 2021 with resume data for all Ivy League graduates, we examine both post-graduate education and career choices as well as...
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Failing Just Fine : Assessing Careers of Venture Capital-backed Entrepreneurs Via a Non-Wage Measure
Amornsiripanitch, Natee; Gompers, Paul A.; Hu, George; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper proposes a non-pecuniary measure of career achievement, Seniority. Based on a database of over 5 million resumes, this metric exploits the variation in job titles and how long they take to attain. When non-monetary factors influence career choice, inference benefits from the use of...
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How Worker Productivity and Wages Grow with Tenure and Experience : The Firm Perspective
Caplin, Andrew; Lee, Minjoon; Leth-Petersen, Søren; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
data. This paper introduces direct measurement of worker productivity in a firm survey designed to separate the role of on … heterogeneity across jobs in the extent to which previous experience substitutes for tenure. The survey makes use of administrative … data to construct a representative sample of firms, check for selective non-response, validate survey measures with …
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