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Schools and Student Achievement: More Evidence From the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
Rouse, Cecilia

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	In this paper I review the existing evaluations of the effect of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program on student achievement. Two of the three existing papers report significant gains in math for the choice students and two of the three…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Education for Growth: Why and For Whom?
Krueger, Alan B. - Lindahl, Mikael

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper summarizes and tries to reconcile evidence from the microeconometric and empirical macro growth literatures on the effect of schooling on income and GDP growth. Much microeconometric evidence suggests that education is an important causal determinant of income for…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Using Market Valuation to Assess the Importance and Efficiency of Public School Spending
Rouse, Cecilia - Barrow, Lisa

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	In this paper we take a “market-based” approach to examine whether increased school expenditures are valued by potential residents and whether the current level of public school provision is inefficient. We do so by employing an instrumental variables strategy to…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life
Greenstone, Michael - Ashenfelter, Orley

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	In 1987 the federal government permitted states to raise the speed limit on their rural interstate roads, but not on their urban interstate roads, from 55 mph to 65 mph for the first time in over a decade. Since the…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Labor Turnover in U.S. Manufacturing Industries
Bloch, Farrell

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Descripción completa.
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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The Effect of Residential Location on the Wages of Black Women and White Women
Reid, Clifford

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Descripción completa.
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Market Power and Wage Inflation
Hamermesh, Daniel

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Descripción completa.
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Changing Stock Market Response to Announcement of Job Loss: Evidence from 1970-1997
Hallock, Kevin

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	We report preliminary results of an analysis of the reaction of stock prices to announcements of reductions in force (RIFs) using a large sample of such announcements during the 1970-1997 period collected from the Wall Street Journal index. We ﬁnd…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Are Prices Higher For the Poor in New York City?
Richburg Hayes, Lashawn

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Despite earlier evidence to the contrary, recent inquiries appear to reach a consensus that the poor pay more for food. However, these studies utilize samples drawn on the basis of prior knowledge of unfair pricing strategies, proximity of volunteer surveyors,…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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The Salaries of Ph.D's in Academe and Elsewhere
Rees, Albert

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Median salaries of Ph.D’s are substantially higher for those in nonacademic employment that for those employed by colleges and universities, even after salaries paid on an academic year basis are adjusted upward to a full-year basis. The differences can be…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Miners' Wages in Post-War Britain: An Application of a Model of Trade Union Behavior
Oswald, Andrew - Alan A. Carruth

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	The paper studies the determination of wages in the British coal industry. A utility—maximising model of a trade union is used to represent the behaviour of the National Union of Mineworkers. A non- linear structural model is derived and is…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?
Krueger, Alan B. - Angrist, Joshua

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper presents evidence showing that individuals’ season of birth is related to their educational attainment because of the combined effects of school start age policy and compulsory school attendance laws. In most school districts, individuals born in the beginning…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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New Evidence on Workplace Education
Krueger, Alan B. - Rouse, Cecilia

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper presents an analysis of the impact of a workplace education program that was administered by a community college at two companies. One of the companies we study is in the manufacturing sector and the other is in the…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Income, Schooling, and Ability: Evidence from a New Sample of Twins
Rouse, Cecilia - Ashenfelter, Orley

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	In this paper we set out a simple model of optimal schooling investments that emphasizes the interaction between schooling choices and income determination; and estimate it using a fresh sample of data on over 700 identical twins. According to the…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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The Litigious Plaintiff Hypothesis: Case Selection and Resolution
Farber, Henry S. - Eisenberg, Theodore

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	A central feature of the litigation process that affects case outcomes is the selection of cases for litigation. In this study, we present a theoretical framework for understanding the operation of this suit selection process and its relationship to the…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Layoffs and Lemons
Katz, Lawrence - Gibbons, Robert

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	In this paper we provide theoretical and empirical analyses of an asymmetric-information model of layoffs in which the current employer is better informed about its workers’ abilities than prospective employers are. The key feature of the model is that when…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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The Impact of the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment
Meyer, Bruce - Katz, Lawrence

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper uses two data sets to examine the impact of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on the duration of unemployment and the time pattern of the escape rate from unemployment in the United States. The first…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Forecasting Successful Economics Graduate Students
Krueger, Alan B. - Wu, Stephen

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper seeks to identify the characteristics of applicants to graduate school in economics that predict successful job placement after completion of graduate school. Although there is considerable uncertainty in predicting the success of prospective Ph.D. students, the results indicate…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Economic Considerations and Class Size
Krueger, Alan B.

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper examines evidence on the effect of class size on student achievement. First, it is shown that results of quantitative summaries of the literature, such as Hanushek (1997), depend critically on whether studies are accorded equal weight. Hanushek summarizes…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Wage Inequality in the U.S. during the 1980s: Rising Dispersion or Falling Minimum Wage?
Lee, David S.

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Inequality in the unconditional distribution of observed wage rates in the U.S. rose substan- tially during the 1980s, mostly in the lower tail of the distribution. The causes of this rising wage inequality are obscured by the fact that concurrent…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Schooling, Intelligence, and Income in America: Cracks in the Bell Curve
Rouse, Cecilia - Ashenfelter, Orley

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	One of the best documented relationships in economics is the link between education and income: higher educated people have higher incomes. Advocates argue that education provides skills, or human capital, that raises an individual‘s productivity. Critics argue that the documented
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Is There Discretion in Wage Setting? A Test Using Takeover Legislation
Bertrand, Marianne - Mullainathan, Sendhil

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Anecdotal evidence suggests that uncontrolled managers let wages rise above competitive levels. Testing this popular perception has proven difficult, however, because independent variation in the extent of managerial discretion is needed. In this paper, we use states’ passage of anti-takeover
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Network Effects and Welfare Cultures
Luttmer, Erzo - Bertrand, Marianne - Mullainathan, Sendhil

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper empirically examines the role of social networks in welfare participation. Social theorists from across the political spectrum have argued that network effects have given rise to a culture of poverty. Empirical work, however, has found it difficult to…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Agents with and without Principals
Bertrand, Marianne - Mullainathan, Sendhil

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Who sets CEO pay? Our standard answer to this question has been shaped by principal agent theory: shareholders set CEO pay. They use pay to limit the moral hazard problem caused by the low ownership stakes of CEOs. Through bonuses,…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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A Study of the Wage Impacts of Unions and Industrial Councils in South Africa
Rouse, Cecilia - Butcher, Kristin

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Some argue that a high union wage premium and the industrial council system are important causes of inﬂexibility in the South African labor market. We estimate union premia on the order of 20 percent for African workers and 10 percent…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Moving to Opportunity in Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment
Liebman, B. Jeffrey - Katz, Lawrence

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper examines the short-run impacts of a change in residential neighborhood on the well-being of low-income families, using evidence from a program in which eligibility for a housing voucher was determined by random lottery. We examine the experiences of…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton

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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires
Krueger, Alan B. - Mas, Alexandre

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper studies the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of permanent replacement workers by Bridgestone/Firestone in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of an excess number of defective…
Fecha:	2011-10-26
Recurso:	Universidad de Princenton