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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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Test Scores and Self-Selection of Higher Education : College Attendance versus College Completion

Venti, Steven F. - 1981

As a companion paper to our work on students' application and colleges' admission decisions, we have estimated a joint …

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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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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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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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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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Bargaining and Inequality in the Labor Market

Caldwell, Sydnee; Haegele, Ingrid; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We use novel surveys of firms and workers, linked to administrative employer-employee data, to study the prevalence and importance of individual bargaining in wage determination. We show that simple survey questions accurately elicit firms' bargaining strategies. Using the elicited strategies...

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Careers and Wages in Family Firms : Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Di Porto, Edoardo; Pagano, Marco; Pezone, Vincenzo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

wages and offer slower and less rewarding careers. Differences in worker sorting account for half of the wage gap while …

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Firm Pay and Worker Search

Caldwell, Sydnee; Haegele, Ingrid; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Whether and how workers search on the job depends on their beliefs about pay and working conditions in other firms. Yet little is known about workers' knowledge of outside pay. We use a large-scale survey of full-time German workers, linked to their Social Security records, to elicit pay...

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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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