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作者：Aslund, Olof; Hensvik, Lena; Skans, Oskar Nordstrom
作者单位：Uppsala University
摘要：We investigate how the interplay between manager and worker origin affects hiring patterns, job separations, and wages. Numerous specifications utilizing a longitudinal matched employer-employee database including 70,000 establishments consistently show that managers are substantially more likely to hire workers of their own origin. Workers who share an origin with their managers earn higher wages and have lower separation rates than dissimilar workers, but this pattern is driven by difference...
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作者：Barrow, Lisa; Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Rouse, Cecilia Elena; Brock, Thomas
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Chicago; Princeton University
摘要：We evaluate the effect of performance-based incentive programs on educational outcomes for community college students from a random assignment experiment at three campuses. Incentive payments over 2 semesters were tied to meeting two conditions-enrolling at least half-time and maintaining a C or better grade point average. Eligibility increased the likelihood of enrolling in the second semester after random assignment and total number of credits earned. Over 2 years, program group students com...
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作者：Bettinger, Eric; Haegeland, Torbjorn; Rege, Mari
作者单位：Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Universitetet i Stavanger
摘要：In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children under the age of 3. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected the long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using comprehensive administrative data, we estimate a difference-in-differences model that exploits differences in older siblings' exposures to the program. We find a significant positive treatment effect on older si...
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作者：Lazear, Edward P.
作者单位：Stanford University; Stanford University
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作者：Schoenberg, Uta; Ludsteck, Johannes
作者单位：University of London; University College London
摘要：This article analyzes the impact of five major expansions in maternity leave coverage in Germany on mothers' labor market outcomes after childbirth. To identify the causal impact of the reforms, we use a difference-in-difference design that compares labor market outcomes of mothers who give birth shortly before and shortly after a change in maternity leave legislation in years of policy changes and years when no changes have taken place. Each expansion in leave coverage reduced mothers' postbi...
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作者：Stinebrickner, Ralph; Stinebrickner, Todd
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：We estimate a dynamic learning model of college dropout, taking advantage of unique expectations data to greatly reduce our reliance on standard assumptions. Our simulations show that 45% of dropout in the first 2 years of college can be attributed to what students learn about their academic performance, with this type of learning playing a smaller role later in college. Poorly performing students tend to leave because staying is not worthwhile rather than because they are at risk of failing o...
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作者：Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W.
作者单位：Duke University; Brown University; University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz
摘要：In the 1980s, many US cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African American men. Black business ownership rates increased significantly after program initiation, with the black-white gap falling 3 percentage points. The evidence that the racial gap in employment also fell is less clear as it de...
