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Strike three: umpires' demand for discrimination
Parsons, Christopher A.; Sulaeman, Johan; Yates, Michael C. - 2008
We explore how umpires' racial/ethnic preferences are expressed in their evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers. Controlling for umpire, pitcher, batter and catcher fixed effects and many other factors, strikes are more likely to be called if the umpire and pitcher match race/ethnicity....
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Does Labor Legislation Benefit Workers? Well-Being after an Hours Reduction
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Jungmin - 2014
reductions in work hours can increase workers' happiness. …
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Lockdowns, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2020
their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases …. Assuming that lockdowns constrain married people to spend time solely with their spouses, simulations show that their happiness … this inference. Simulations demonstrate clearly that, assuming lockdowns impose solitude on singles, their happiness was …
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Does Labor Legislation Benefit Workers? Well-Being after an Hours Reduction
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Jungmin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
reductions in work hours can increase workers' happiness. …
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The Economic Impact of Heritable Physical Traits: Hot Parents, Rich Kid?
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Zhang, Anwen - 2024
trait, beauty, to infer the extent to which parents' physical characteristics transmit inequality across generations …
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Stressed out on four continents: time crunch or yuppie kvetch?
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Lee, Jungmin - 2005
Social commentators have pointed to problems of workers who face time stress an absence of sufficient time to accomplish all their tasks. An economic theory views time stress as reflecting how tightly the time constraint binds households. Time stress will be more prevalent in households with...
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Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination
Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolas; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2013
The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others - are exophobic - or because they favor their own kind - are endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative...
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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999
1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings quantiles …
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Time to eat: household production under increasing income inequality
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2006
, between which income and earnings inequality increased, allows examining how household production is affected by changing …
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Unemployment, market work and household production
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009
Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...
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