Foresightful workers can take actions to reduce their exposure to risk in labor markets, but existing evidence on … narrow bracketing suggests that individuals might not optimally integrate risk reduction decisions with subsequent labor … decisions. In an online labor market, we vary the level of worker autonomy when transcribing a set of documents and measure the …

This paper studies the labor market impacts of firm accommodation decisions and assesses implications for the design of … significant increase in employment and earnings a year later. To explore welfare implications, we develop and estimate a … frictional labor market model of accommodation as a form of human capital investment. Worker turnover and imperfect experience …

Many observers argue that diversity in Economics and STEM fields is critical, not simply because of egalitarian goals … Economics degree than non-enrollees (a plausible lower bound given negative selection into enrollment on math skills and major … participation in Economics …

We provide the first systematic account of summer declines in women's labor market activity. From May to July, the … employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women …--and corresponding lapses in implicit childcare--provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment …

, employment, wages, and access to transportation and credit in adulthood, using household fixed effects models to control for …

We study how human capital diversification, in the form of double majoring, affects the response of earnings to labor …