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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

This paper compares the careers of Ivy League athletes to those of their non-athlete classmates. Combining team-level information on all Ivy League athletes from 1970 to 2021 with resume data for all Ivy League graduates, we examine both post-graduate education and career choices as well as...

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"Compensate the Losers?" : Economic Policy and Partisan Realignment in the US

Kuziemko, Ilyana; Longuet Marx, Nicolas; Naidu, Suresh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We argue that the Democratic Party's evolution on economic policy helps explain partisan realignment by education. We show that less-educated Americans differentially demand "predistribution" policies (e.g., a federal jobs guarantee, higher minimum wages, protectionism, and stronger unions),...

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The World's Rust Belts : The Heterogeneous Effects of Deindustrialization on 1,993 Cities in Six Countries

Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of manufacturing employment in the year of its country's...

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Dynamic Monopsony with Large Firms and Noncompetes

Gottfries, Axel; Jarosch, Gregor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How do noncompete agreements between workers and firms affect wages and employment in equilibrium? We build a tractable framework of wage posting with on-the-job search and large employers that provides a natural laboratory to assess anti-competitive practices in the labor market. We...

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Family Formation and Crime

Massenkoff, Maxim N.; Rose, Evan K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use administrative data from Washington State to perform a large-scale analysis of the impact of family formation on crime. Our estimates indicate that pregnancy triggers sharp declines in arrests rivaling any known intervention, supporting the view that childbirth is a "turning point" that...

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Work Hours Mismatch

Lachowska, Marta; Mas, Alexandre; Saggio, Raffaele; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper uses a revealed preference approach applied to administrative data from Washington to document and characterize work-hour constraints. Workers have limited discretion over hours at a given employer, and there is substantial mismatch between workers who prefer long hours and employers...

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Homelessness and the Persistence of Deprivation : Income, Employment, and Safety Net Participation

Meyer, Bruce D.; Wyse, Angela; Meyer, Gillian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

population, including the first national estimates of income, employment, and safety net participation based on administrative … Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Medicare, Medicaid, Disability Insurance (DI), Supplemental Security Income (SSI … arise in the context of long-term, severe deprivation rather than large and sudden losses of income. People appear to …

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On the Determinants of Young Adult Outcomes : Impacts of Randomly Assigned Neighborhoods For Children in Military Families

Kawano, Laura; Sacerdote, Bruce; Skimmyhorn, William L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

) standard deviation better zip code raises college going by 6.7 percentage points, SAT composite by 38 points and income …

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Transgender Earnings Gaps in the United States : Evidence from Administrative Data

Carpenter, Christopher; Goodman, Lucas; Lee, Maxine J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We provide the first evidence on transgender earnings in the US using administrative data on over 55,000 individuals who changed their gender marker with the Social Security Administration and had gender-congruent first name changes on tax records. We validate and describe this sample which...

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The U.S. Low-Wage Structure : A McWage Comparison

Ashenfelter, Orley; Jurajda, Štěpán - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Thanks to standardized work protocol and technology of McDonald's restaurants, the hourly wage of McDonald's Basic Crew enables wage comparisons under near-identical skill inputs and hedonic job conditions. McWages capture labor costs in entry-level jobs, while the Big Macs (earned) Per Hour...

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