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We propose a new classification of experiments that captures the extent to which the experimental design and analysis are linked to economic theory. We then use this system to classify all published field experiments in the five top economics journals from 1975 to 2010. We find that the vast...
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Cesarean delivery for low-risk pregnancies is generally associated with worse health outcomes for infants and mothers … the year after birth, to study the causal health effects of cesarean delivery for low-risk first births. Building on …
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for any permanent differences in productivity across workers, firms, and job matches. We also compare OLS and instrumental …
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are affected by differences in employer productivity. Studies that focus on firm-specific productivity shocks and control … somewhere between a 0.5% and 1.5% increase in wages. Given the wide variation in firm-specific productivity, elasticities of …
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Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …
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