to higher school productivity. We discuss the evidence in this area, concluding that the impact of competition has proven … to be more mixed and modest than expected. We suggest that this in fact should not be surprising, since economic theory …

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost …. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard estimation error. Using German social security records we show that … the effect of this bias is substantial in samples with limited inter-firm movement. The correlation between worker and …

same time, assessing the prevalence and origin of referee bias is germane to various domains of life. Referee bias is …

schooling and market ability is found to be positive and is consistent with the existence of a positive "Ability Bias". …

economists in 19 countries, we examine the effect of ideological bias on views among economists. Participants were asked to …, research area, and undergraduate major, with patterns consistent with the existence of ideological bias. …

new method to correct for attrition bias. We rely on a 10-years longitudinal data set with a final attrition rate of 10 …

quantiles of the wage distribution. We account for the selection bias from the annual hours of work decision by developing and …

estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if we neglect this potential bias in OLS when estimating the gender wage gap …