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Prizes and Productivity: How Winning the Fields Medal Affects Scientific Output
Borjas, George; Doran, Kirk B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Knowledge generation is key to economic growth, and scientific prizes are designed to encourage it. But how does winning a prestigious prize affect future output? We compare the productivity of Fields medalists (winners of the top mathematics prize) to that of similarly brilliant contenders. The...
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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform
Lavy, Victor Chaim; Danzer, Natalia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...
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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Ziliak, James P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
In this chapter I provide a brief history of the TANF program, including changes made as part of the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act. I then present a variety of program statistics, including trends in aggregate and state-level caseloads and spending, along with changes in the demographic composition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271423
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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice
Meghir, Costas; Chiappori, Pierré-Andre; Dias, Monica Costa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and the labor market. They then match based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252666
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Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
Blundell, Richard; Meghir, Costas; Dias, Monica Costa; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011254925
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The Labour Market in the New Information Economy
Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
The extension of information and communication technologies to economic activity is changing the labour market in important ways. This article shows that computerization and use of the Internet are associated with greater hours worked as well as higher wages; that IT occupations are rapidly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085141
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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to … affecting their labor supply and wages in the United States. We find, as expected, that women who migrate from countries with … culture and norms in affecting immigrant women's labor supply, since the effect of source country female labor supply on …
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What Explains Trends in Labor Supply Among U.S. Undergraduates, 1970-2009?
Scott-Clayton, Judith - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Recent cohorts of college enrollees are more likely to work, and work substantially more, than those of the past. October CPS data reveal that average labor supply among 18 to 22-year-old full-time undergraduates nearly doubled between 1970 and 2000, rising from 6 hours to 11 hours per week. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397143
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Worker Absence and Productivity: Evidence from Teaching
Herrmann, Mariesa A.; Rockoff, Jonah E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
A significant amount of work time is lost each year due to worker absence, but evidence on the productivity losses from absenteeism remains scant due to difficulties with identification. In this paper, we use uniquely detailed data on the timing, duration, and cause of absences among teachers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693985
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The Role of Teacher Quality in Retention and Hiring: Using Applications-to-Transfer to Uncover Preferences of Teachers and Schools
Wyckoff, James; Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Many large urban school districts are rethinking their personnel management strategies, often giving increased control to schools in the hiring of teachers, reducing, for example, the importance of seniority. If school hiring authorities are able to make good decisions about whom to hire, these...
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