Browsing by Keyword "labor economics"
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Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Micro vs. Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records
(MIT Press, 2011)We show that the effects of taxes on labor supply are shaped by interactions between adjustment costs for workers and hours constraints set by firms. We develop a model in which firms post job offers characterized by an ... -
Essays in Development and Labor Economics
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Essays in Local Labor Economics
(2014-06-24)This dissertation consists of three independent chapters. Chapter 1 examines the determinants and welfare implications of the increased geographic of workers by skill from 1980 to 2000. I estimate a structural spatial ... -
Essays on Financial Economics and Macroeconomics
(2012-07-24)The first chapter studies mass layoff decisions. Firms in the SP 500 often announce layoffs within days of one another, despite the fact that the average SP 500 constituent announces layoffs once every 5 years. By contrast, ... -
Essays on the Economic and Social Consequences of Policing
(2022-05-11)This dissertation contains three essays on the economic and social consequences of policing. Chapters 1 and 2 examine the effectiveness and equity of the police's use of pedestrian stops as a crime deterrence tool. Over ... -
How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project Star
(MIT Press, 2011)In Project STAR, 11,571 students in Tennessee and their teachers were randomly assigned to classrooms within their schools from kindergarten to third grade. This article evaluates the long-term impacts of STAR by linking ... -
The Labor of Division: Returns to Compulsory Math Coursework
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)Labor economists know that a year of schooling raises earnings but have little evidence on the impact of specific courses completed. I identify the impact of math coursework on earnings using the differential timing of ... -
When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation
(INFORMS, 2012)We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and job assignments: an “evaluation nudge,” in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. ...