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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports

Stevenson, Betsey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates--to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates--in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...

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Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector: Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers' Work Hours?

Kuhn, Peter; Stoddard, Christiana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers' hours are largely chosen at the worker's discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over...

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The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration on Firms: Evidence from H-1B Visa Lotteries

Doran, Kirk; Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We study the effect of a firm winning an additional H-1B visa on the firm’s outcomes, by comparing winning and losing firms in the Fiscal Year 2006 and 2007 H-1B visa lotteries. We match administrative data on the participants in these lotteries to the universe of approved U.S. patents, and to...

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One Ring to Rule Them All? Globalization of Knowledge and Knowledge Creation

Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper directs attention at the globalization of knowledge and knowledge creation as the fundamental global driver of economic outcomes in today's information economy. It documents the globalization of knowledge and spread of scientific research from advanced to developing countries and...

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Wage Effects of Unionization and Occupational Licensing Coverage in the United States

Gittleman, Maury; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Recent estimates in standard models of wage determination for both unionization and occupational licensing have shown wage effects that are similar across the two institutions. These cross-sectional estimates use specialized data sets, with small sample sizes, for the period 2006 through 2008....

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The Most Egalitarian of All Professions: Pharmacy and the Evolution of a Family-Friendly Occupation

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Pharmacy has become a female-majority profession that is highly remunerated with a small gender earnings gap and low earnings dispersion relative to other occupations. We sketch a labor market framework based on the theory of equalizing differences to integrate and interpret our empirical...

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Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of "Independent" Directors

Frazzini, Andrea; Cohen, Lauren; Malloy, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We provide evidence that firms appoint independent directors who are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, micro-level data on their views regarding the...

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The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies

Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Hierarchies allow individuals to leverage their knowledge through others' time. This mechanism increases productivity and amplifies the impact of skill heterogeneity on earnings inequality. To quantify this effect, we analyze the earnings and organization of U.S. lawyers and use the equilibrium...

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The Cost of Primary Care Doctors

Glied, Sherry A.; Prabhu, Ashwin; Edelman, Norman H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

-specific investments (physician training) added to this underlying capital. The value of physicians' underlying human capital is estimated … training. These data are combined to compute the societal cost per primary care physician visit. The estimated societal cost … than the current Medicare compensation rate per service unit The private return to primary care physician training is …

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Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors

Bertrand, Marianne; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

rising gender gap in earnings: differences in training prior to MBA graduation; differences in career interruptions; and …

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