In an important and influential paper, Card and Krueger argued that proxies for school quality positively affect the rate of return to future education. In this paper, we analyze a variant of the Card and Krueger model using a hierarchical Bayesian approach and school-level quality data from the...

Although many complain that the clientele served by government programs routinely expands, there exists no analytic model with suggests how policy implementation may result in such growth. This paper shows that peer effects, where each bureaucrat compares his behavior or that of all others, can...

Although the neoclassical labor economics literature assumes that hours of work are determined solely on the supply side as a result of individual demand for leisure, and abundance of evidence points to the importance of employer demand factors in the market for hours of work. Despite the appeal...