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How Do You Find a Good Manager?
Weidmann, Ben; Vecci, Joseph; Said, Farah; Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
performance is positively predicted by economic decision-making skill and fluid intelligence - but not gender, age, or ethnicity …
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Too Many Managers : The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments
Cohen, Lauren; Gurun, Umit G.; Ozel, N. Bugra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We find widespread evidence of firms appearing to avoid paying overtime wages by exploiting a federal law that allows them to do so for employees termed as "managers" and paid a salary above a pre-defined dollar threshold. We show that listings for salaried positions with managerial titles...
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Managing to Learn
Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Lucas, Adrienne M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
To improve public services, public sector managers must encourage reticent civil servants to enact effective reforms. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve Instructional Management (0.3SD) and student learning...
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Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions?
Blair, Peter Q.; Chung, Bobby W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric--making unlicensed workers an illegal substitute for licensed workers but not the reverse. We test our hypothesis using a difference-in-differences event study research design...
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Generative AI at Work
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Li, Danielle; Raymond, Lindsey R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the staggered introduction of a generative AI-based conversational assistant using data from 5,179 customer support agents. Access to the tool increases productivity, as measured by issues resolved per hour, by 14 percent on average, with the greatest impact on novice and low-skilled...
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Risk Management and the Autonomy of Labor
Dambaur, Andreas J.; Ericson, Keith M. Marzilli; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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...
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The Power of Proximity to Coworkers : Training for Tomorrow or Productivity Today?
Emanuel, Natalia; Harrington, Emma; Pallais, Amanda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Amidst the rise of remote work, we ask: what are the effects of proximity to coworkers? We find being near coworkers has tradeoffs: proximity increases long-run human capital development at the expense of short-term output. We study software engineers at a Fortune 500 firm, whose main campus has...
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Gender Differences in Response to Competitive Organization? Differences Across Fields from a Product Development Platform Field Experiment
Boudreau, Kevin; Kaushik, Nilam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
significant gender differences in willingness to participate under competition. Among those in STEM fields, we detect no … statistical gender differences. These results and broader patterns documented in the study are consistent with significant … heterogeneity in competitiveness across both men and women, with field and career sorting resulting in differences (in gender …
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Intergenerational Human Capital Impacts and Complementarities in Kenya
Duhon, Madeline; Fernald, Lia C. H.; Hicks, Joan Hamory; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This study exploits experimental variation in parent human capital (early-life school-based deworming) and a shock to schooling (extended Covid closures) to estimate how these factors interact in the production of child human capital within a sample of 3,500 Kenyan 3-8 year olds. Parents with...
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The Spillover Effects of Top Income Inequality
Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Hémous, David; Hicks, Jeffrey; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Top income inequality in the United States has increased considerably within occupations. This phenomenon has led to a search for a common explanation. We instead develop a theory where increases in income inequality originating within a few occupations can "spill over" through consumption into...
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