We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one's peers and others. The … reputation? Using evidence for academic economists, we find that, conditional on its impact, the quantity of output has no or … central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that …

option values, the internal rate of return - a cornerstone of classical human capital theory - is not a useful guide to …

tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of Hirsch's index that emphasize smaller numbers of highly-cited papers … perform better than Hirsch's original index and have substantial power to explain which economists are tenured at which …

In this paper we analyze estimation of coefficients in regression models under moment restrictions where the moment … an application based on omitted ability bias in estimation of wage regressions. The National Longitudinal Survey Young …

's inference process declines as performance observations accumulate, the estimated effect of schooling on the level of wages is … are increasingly correlated with wages as experience increases; wage residuals are a martingale; and wage cuts -are not …

increase in average wages in exporting firms relative to domestic firms, consistent with earlier studies. However, using … the differential impact of trade openness on the wages of workers at exporting firms relative to otherwise identical …, non-random labor market allocation mechanisms, in determining the effects of trade policy changes on wages …

heterogeneity, job-specific error components in both wages and hours, and measurement error. We use the model to address a number of … important questions in labor economics, including the source of the experience profile of wages, the response of job changes to …-specific error components in wages and hours …