empirical problem using a potential outcome framework with endogenous selection. The selection bias is captured by a control … penalty being about 12% in the 1980s and 22% in the 1990s. For the latter period, the selection bias is not created by a … ignoring selection leads to a 50% underestimate. In contrast to these wage penalties, legal status appears to have mixed …

-product-destination data. By taking firm-product level selection into account we show that export unit values increase with distance even for … particular firm-product combinations. This cannot be explained by models assuming firm- or even firm-product level selection and …

entrepreneurs as the result of selection on innate ability. The model supposes that agents establish businesses with imperfect … which they update their beliefs, and this process eventually determines their next business choice. Selection on ability … panel data from the NLSY79. The analysis permits a distinction to be made between selection on innate ability and learning …

entrants is the main selection force in declining markets. As product life cycles progress, trial-and-error entry subsides, and …

on productivity growth. Growth is generated by selection, and sustained by entrants imitating successful incumbents … works through self-selection of the most productive firms into the export market. It leads to a reallocation of resources … towards more efficient firms. Since the effect of selection and imitation on growth is amplified by the trade …

from worker self-selection may not be matched by a corresponding social gain. In particular, the equilibrium incentive to …