We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … would suggest. Second, career effects differ by relative age. Those born in early calendar months (January to April) are … more likely to make it into the NHL, but display significantly lower performance across all birth cohorts than later …

This paper analyzes the life-cycle career costs associated with child rearing and decomposes their effects into …

regression discontinuity design it compares the earnings of age cohorts containing British men who were required to undertake … post-war National Service with later cohorts who were exempt. It also compares age cohorts containing men who were …

field choices students make at age 16, when they may have limited information about their skills and the labor market, have …

, males would be 23% and females 5% less likely to continue pursuing a professional career, on average. Thus, winner …

We demonstrate that empirical evidence of employer learning is sensitive to how one defines the career start date and … – systematically overstates experience and biases learning estimates towards zero for college-educated workers. Using career start …

incentives to invest in education? This paper exploits Norwegian population panel data with nearly career long earnings histories … earnings and steeper age-earnings profile, in line with predictions from human capital theory. These estimates imply an …