This paper investigates whether employers use university prestige as a signal of workers' unobservable productivity. Our test is based on employer learning-statistical discrimination models which suggest that if employers use university reputation to predict a worker's unobservable quality,...

This paper provides one of the first estimates of elasticities of substitution across suppliers within the same product. This paper estimates these elasticities using new real-time administrative tax data on firm-to-firm transactions, with product-level prices and quantities, leveraging...

Labor supply estimates are sensitive to the measures of health used. When self reported measures are used health seems to playa larger role and economic factors a smaller one than when more objective measures are used" While most authors have interpreted these results as an indication of the...