"In traditional signaling models, education provides a way for individuals to sort themselves by ability. Employers in turn use education to statistically discriminate, paying wages that reflect the average productivity of workers with the same given level of education. In this paper, we provide...

In traditional signaling models, education provides a way for individuals to sort themselves by ability. Employers in turn use education to statistically discriminate, paying wages that reflect the average productivity of workers with the same given level of education. In this paper, we provide...

This paper develops a dynamic model of retail competition and uses it to study the impact of the expansion of a new national competitor on the structure of urban markets. In order to accommodate substantial heterogeneity (both observed and unobserved) across agents and markets, the paper first...

Economic data are frequently generated by stochastic processes that can be modeled as realizations of random functions (functional data). This paper adapts the speci…cation test for functional data developed by Bugni, Hall, Horowitz and Neumann to the presence of missing observations. By using...

This paper considers the problem of coverage of the elements of the identified set in a class of partially identified econometric models with a prespecified probability. In order to conduct inference in partially identified econometric models defined by moment (in)equalities, the literature has...

This paper explores the relationship between the state-specific child labor legislation and the decline in child labor that occurred in the U.S. between 1880 and 1900. The existing literature that addresses this question uses a difference-in-difference estimation technique. We contribute to this...

Economic data are frequently generated by stochastic processes that can be modeled as realizations of random functions (functional data). This paper adapts the specification test for functional data developed by Bugni, Hall, Horowitz and Neumann (2008) to the presence of missing observations. By...