Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …

Hiring inexperienced workers generates information about their abilities. If this information is public, workers obtain … determine the effects of hiring workers and revealing more information about their abilities through a field experiment in an …

We analyze two experiments that provided direct information on school test scores to lower-income families in a public … school choice plan. We find that receiving information significantly increases the fraction of parents choosing higher … disadvantaged students when parents have easy access to test score information and have good options to choose from …

during the summer of 2006 and collected detailed information on the specific schools at which teachers interviewed. We …

-or-doing" (when labor and training are substitutes, like for college). Agents' abilities and labor supply are private information to …