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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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Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration
Freeman, Richard B.; Ganguli, Ina; Murciano-Goroff, Raviv - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
. Third, the main reason for most collaborations is to combine the specialized knowledge and skills of coauthors, but there …
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Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial
Blau, Francine; Currie, Janet; Croson, Rachel; Ginther, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
While much has been written about the potential benefits of mentoring in academia, very little research documents its effectiveness. We present data from a randomized controlled trial of a mentoring program for female economists organized by the Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics...
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The Macro-Foundations of Microeconomics: Initial Labor Market Conditions and Long-Term Outcomes for Economists
Oyer, Paul - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
Each year, graduate students entering the academic job market worry that they will suffer due to uncontrollable macroeconomic risk. Given the importance of general human capital and the relative ease of publicly observing productivity in academia, one might expect unlucky graduating cohorts'...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828576
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How Much Do Medical Students Know About Physician Income?
Nicholson, Sean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
Twenty-five cohorts of medical students were asked in their first and fourth year of school to estimate contemporaneous physician income in six different specialties. The students' income estimation errors varied systematically over time and cross-sectionally by specialty and type of student....
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Peer Effects in the Workplace: Evidence from Random Groupings in Professional Golf Tournaments
Guryan, Jonathan; Kroft, Kory; Notowidigdo, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper uses the random assignment of playing partners in professional golf tournaments to test for peer effects in the workplace. We find no evidence that the ability of playing partners affects the performance of professional golfers, contrary to recent evidence on peer effects in 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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