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This paper examines the careers of eleven leading American poets of the past century. Using the frequency with which poems are reprinted in anthologies as a measure of their importance, quantitative analysis reveals that among these poets there were two distinctly different life cycles: one...
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Gender differences in competitiveness are often discussed as a potential explanation for gender differences in … of profile choice as gender. More importantly, up to 23 percent of the gender difference in profile choice can be … attributed to gender differences in competitiveness. This lends support to the extrapolation of laboratory findings on …
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the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce …
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We show that economic conditions when managers enter the labor market have long-run effects on their career paths and … managerial styles. Managers who began their careers during recessions become CEOs more quickly, but at smaller firms. They also … environment is important to the formation and selection of managers …
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, selection does not impede the promotion of behavioral managers. Instead, competitive environments oftentimes promote their …
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John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock were experimental filmmakers: both believed images were more important to movies than words, and considered movies a form of entertainment. Their styles developed gradually over long careers, and both made the films that are generally considered their greatest...
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This paper examines the tradeoff between early and late specialization in the context of higher education. While some educational systems require students to specialize early by choosing a major field of study prior to entering university, others allow students to postpone this choice. I develop...
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This paper explores how the wage and career consequences of motherhood differ by skill and timing. Past work has often found smaller or even negligible effects from childbearing for high-skill women, but we find the opposite. Wage trajectories diverge sharply for high scoring women after, but...
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Some important novelists have written a great novel early in their careers and have produced lesser works thereafter, whereas others have improved their work gradually over long periods and have made their major contributions late in their lives. Which of these patterns a novelist follows...
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Using transactions from fine art auctions for 42 leading American contemporary artists I estimate the relationship between the value of a painting and the artist's age at the date of its execution. The econometric estimates show that artists born before 1920 were likely to have done their most...
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