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The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Luo, Jin; Morgan, Andrew J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...
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Late Bloomers : The Aggregate Implications of Getting Education Later in Life
Bárány, Zsófia L.; Buchinsky, Moshe; Corblet, Pauline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
It is generally agreed upon that most individuals who acquire a college degree do so in their early 20s. Despite this consensus, we show that in the US from the 1930 birth cohort onwards a large fraction - around 20% - of college graduates obtained their degree after age 30. We explore the...
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Industry Choice and within Industry Earnings Effects
Brunner, Eric J.; Dougherty, Shaun; Ross, Stephen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
earnings premiums using a regression discontinuity design. We study the universe of students that applied to the Connecticut … arise through selection of students with high 8th grade tests scores into these industries because they offer a higher …
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The Returns to College Major Choice : Average and Distributional Effects, Career Trajectories, and Earnings Variability
Andrews, Rodney J.; Imberman, Scott A.; Lovenheim, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
to the role of earnings growth and variability. Using linked administrative data from Texas on public K-12 students …
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No Revenge for Nerds? Evaluating the Careers of Ivy League Athletes
Amornsiripanitch, Natee; Gompers, Paul A.; Hu, George; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
in the labor market. Athletes attain higher terminal wages and earn cumulatively more than non-athletes over the course …
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Creative Destruction? Impact of E-Commerce on the Retail Sector
Chava, Sudheer; Oettl, Alexander; Singh, Manpreet; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-commerce firm's fulfillment centers reduces traditional retail workers' income in geographically proximate counties by 2.4%. Wages …
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Extraordinary Labor Market Developments and the 2022-23 Disinflation
Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Two extraordinary U.S. labor market developments facilitated the sharp disinflation in 2022-23 without raising the unemployment rate. First, pandemic-driven infection worries and social distancing intentions caused a sizable drag on labor force participation that began to reverse in the first...
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The Impact of Money in Politics on Labor and Capital : Evidence from Citizens United v. FEC
Akey, Pat; Babina, Tania; Buchak, Greg; Tenekedjieva, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine whether corporate money in politics benefits or hurts labor using the 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United, which rendered bans on political election spending unconstitutional. In difference-in-difference analyses, affected states experience increases in both capital and labor...
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Online Job Posts Contain Very Little Wage Information
Batra, Honey; Michaud, Amanda; Mongey, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
a point wage. The majority (8%) feature a range of wages that are on average wide, spanning 28% of the midpoint (e …, posted wages are 40% higher than wages in BLS data in low-wage occupations and 20% lower than BLS data in high …-wage occupations. Fourth, among the wages that are posted, high wage firms are more opaque, with more and wider ranges. Fifth, there is …
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Heterogeneous Beliefs and School Choice Mechanisms
Kapor, Adam - 2018
This paper studies how welfare outcomes in centralized school choice depend on the assignment mechanism when participants are not fully informed. Using a survey of school choice participants in a strategic setting, we show that beliefs about admissions chances differ from rational expectations...
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