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1“..."Despite the well-documented benefits of high-quality child care, many preschool-age children in the U.S. attend low-quality programs. Accordingly, improving...”
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2“..."We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on...”
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3“..."We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its bias towards skilled occupations. We...”
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4“..."For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend for-profit institutions take on more...”
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5“..."We investigate the role of information frictions in the US labor market using a new nationally representative panel dataset on individuals' labor market...”
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6“..."Among college graduates, teachers have both low average AFQT and high average risk aversion, perhaps because the compression of earnings within teaching...”
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7by Varian, Hal“..."Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have been around for many years. However, in the last 5 years, remarkable progress has been made using...”
2018
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8“..."Most turnover reflects churn, where hires replace departures. Churn varies substantially by employer, industry and worker characteristics. In the LEHD (QWI)...”
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9by Biasi, Barbara“..."Compensation of most US public school teachers is rigid and solely based on seniority. This paper studies a 2011 reform that gave school districts in...”
2018
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10“..."A large literature demonstrates that occupational licensing is a labor market friction that distorts labor supply allocation and prices. We show that an...”
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11“..."After decades of convergence, the gender gap in employment outcomes has recently plateaued in many rich countries, despite the fact that women have increased...”
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12by Rothstein, Jesse“..."Chetty et al. (2014b) show that children from low-income families achieve higher adult incomes, relative to those from higher income families, in some...”
2018
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13“..."Does participation in a social assistance program by parents have spillovers on their children's own participation, future labor market attachment, and human...”
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14“..."We document a new finding regarding changes in labor market outcomes for men and women in the US. Since 1980, conditional on being a college-educated man, the...”
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15by Bleakley, Hoyt“..."While health affects economic development and wellbeing through a variety of pathways, one commonly suggested mechanism is a 'horizon' channel in which...”
2018
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16“..."We explore the links between social capital and labor market networks at the neighbourhood level. We harness rich data taken from multiple sources, including...”
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17“..."We study competitive equilibrium in a signaling economy with heterogeneously informed buyers. In terms of the classic Spence (1973) model of job market...”
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18“..."Using data from a Canadian field experiment on the financial barriers to higher education, we estimate the distribution of the value of financial aid for...”
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19“..."This chapter focuses on women, work, and family, with a particular focus on differences by educational attainment. First, we review long-term trends regarding...”
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20“..."Researchers from economics, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines have studied the persistent under-representation of women in science, technology,...”