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2020
w28279 W. Bentley MacLeod
Miguel Urquiola

Why Does the U.S. Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles
w28245 Itzik Fadlon
Frederik Plesner Lyngse
Torben Heien Nielsen

Early Career, Life-Cycle Choices, and Gender
w28227 Peter Q. Blair
Bobby W. Chung

A Model of Occupational Licensing and Statistical Discrimination
w28223 Jennifer Kee
Melinda Knuth
Joanna Lahey
Marco A. Palma

Does Eye-Tracking Have an Effect on Economic Behavior?
w28216 Wolfgang Keller
Teresa Molina
William W. Olney

The Gender Gap Among Top Business Executives
w28183 Maria Recalde
Lise Vesterlund

Gender Differences in Negotiation and Policy for Improvement
w28179 Leila Agha
Keith Marzilli Ericson
Xiaoxi Zhao

The Impact of Organizational Boundaries on Healthcare Coordination and Utilization
w28083 Eliza Forsythe
Lisa B. Kahn
Fabian Lange
David G. Wiczer

Searching, Recalls, and Tightness: An Interim Report on the COVID Labor Market
w28061 James Feigenbaum
Daniel P. Gross

Automation and the Future of Young Workers: Evidence from Telephone Operation in the Early 20th Century
w27952 Mu-Jeung Yang
Michael Christensen
Nicholas Bloom
Raffaella Sadun
Jan Rivkin

How Do CEOs Make Strategy?
w27928 Arindrajit Dube
Attila S. Lindner

City Limits: What do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do?
w27907 Shai Bernstein
Richard R. Townsend
Ting Xu

Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups
w27894 Barbara Biasi
Heather Sarsons

Flexible Wages, Bargaining, and the Gender Gap
w27853 Steven N. Kaplan
Morten Sorensen
Anastasia A. Zakolyukina

What Is CEO Overconfidence? Evidence from Executive Assessments
w27833 Georgij Alekseev
Safaa Amer
Manasa Gopal
Theresa Kuchler
JW Schneider
Johannes Stroebel
Nils C. Wernerfelt

The Effects of COVID-19 on U.S. Small Businesses: Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees
w27798 Abhay Aneja
Guo Xu

The Costs of Employment Segregation: Evidence from the Federal Government under Woodrow Wilson
w27792 Krista J. Ruffini
Aaron Sojourner
Abigail K. Wozniak

Who's In and Who's Out under Workplace COVID Symptom Screening?
w27755 Ihsaan Bassier
Arindrajit Dube
Suresh Naidu

Monopsony in Movers: The Elasticity of Labor Supply to Firm Wage Policies
w27736 Danielle Li
Lindsey R. Raymond
Peter Bergman

Hiring as Exploration
w27726 Alisa Tazhitdinova
Increasing Hours Worked: Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform
w27680 Jing Cai
Shing-Yi Wang

Improving Management through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing
w27623 Alexander W. Bartik
Zoe B. Cullen
Edward L. Glaeser
Michael Luca
Christopher T. Stanton
Adi Sunderam

The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses
w27613 Alexander W. Bartik
Marianne Bertrand
Feng Lin
Jesse Rothstein
Matt Unrath

Measuring the labor market at the onset of the COVID-19 crisis
w27607 Jesse M. Bruhn
Scott A. Imberman
Marcus A. Winters

Regulatory Arbitrage in Teacher Hiring and Retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools
w27606 Rocco Macchiavello
Andreas Menzel
Atonu Rabbani
Christopher Woodruff

Challenges of Change: An Experiment Promoting Women to Managerial Roles in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector
w27594 Stefano DellaVigna
Elizabeth Linos

RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units
w27568 Morris M. Kleiner
Ming Xu

Occupational Licensing and Labor Market Fluidity
w27467 Jason Abaluck
Leila Agha
David C. Chan Jr
Daniel Singer
Diana Zhu

Fixing Misallocation with Guidelines: Awareness vs. Adherence
w27422 Alexander W. Bartik
Zoe B. Cullen
Edward L. Glaeser
Michael Luca
Christopher T. Stanton

What Jobs are Being Done at Home During the Covid-19 Crisis? Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
w27362 Dylan Balla-Elliott
Zoë B. Cullen
Edward L. Glaeser
Michael Luca
Christopher T. Stanton

Determinants of Small Business Reopening Decisions After COVID Restrictions Were Lifted
w27344 Erik Brynjolfsson
John J. Horton
Adam Ozimek
Daniel Rock
Garima Sharma
Hong-Yi TuYe

COVID-19 and Remote Work: An Early Look at US Data
w27325 Kory Kroft
Yao Luo
Magne Mogstad
Bradley Setzler

Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry
w27216 Peter Ganong
Pascal J. Noel
Joseph S. Vavra

US Unemployment Insurance Replacement Rates During the Pandemic
w27186 Shanglyu Deng
Hanming Fang
Qiang Fu
Zenan Wu

Confidence Management in Tournaments
w27164 David Altig
Alan J. Auerbach
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Elias Ilin
Victor Ye

Marginal Net Taxation of Americans' Labor Supply
w27162 Dario Cestau
Dennis Epple
Richard Romano
Holger Sieg
Carl Wojtaszek

College Achievement and Attainment Gaps: Evidence from West Point Cadets
w27154 Kevin Boudreau
Nilam Kaushik

The Gender Gap in Tech & Competitive Work Environments? Field Experimental Evidence from an Internet-of-Things Product Development Platform
w27141 Olivier Coibion
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Michael Weber

The Cost of the Covid-19 Crisis: Lockdowns, Macroeconomic Expectations, and Consumer Spending
w27090 Jeffrey Clemens
Lisa B. Kahn
Jonathan Meer

Dropouts Need Not Apply? The Minimum Wage and Skill Upgrading
w27071 Ben Weidmann
David J. Deming

Team Players: How Social Skills Improve Group Performance
w27058 Scott R. Baker
Stephen Teng Sun
Constantine Yannelis

Corporate Taxes and Retail Prices
w27054 Benjamin Hansen
Drew McNichols

Information and the Persistence of the Gender Wage Gap: Early Evidence from California's Salary History Ban
w27038 Jonathan Gruber
Benjamin R. Handel
Samuel H. Kina
Jonathan T. Kolstad

Managing Intelligence: Skilled Experts and AI in Markets for Complex Products
w27037 Stefano DellaVigna
Jörg Heining
Johannes F. Schmieder
Simon Trenkle

Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany
w27017 Olivier Coibion
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Michael Weber

Labor Markets During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Preliminary View
w27006 Achyuta Adhvaryu
Vittorio Bassi
Anant Nyshadham
Jorge A. Tamayo

No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm
w26989 Alexander W. Bartik
Marianne Bertrand
Zoë B. Cullen
Edward L. Glaeser
Michael Luca
Christopher T. Stanton

How Are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19? Early Evidence from a Survey
w26969 Jeffrey Clemens
Michael R. Strain

Understanding "Wage Theft": Evasion and Avoidance Responses to Minimum Wage Increases
w26964 Leonid Kogan
Dimitris Papanikolaou
Lawrence D. W. Schmidt
Jae Song

Technological Innovation and Labor Income Risk
w26948 Jonathan I. Dingel
Brent Neiman

How Many Jobs Can be Done at Home?
w26944 Charles Cameron
John M. de Figueiredo

Quitting in Protest: Presidential Policymaking and Civil Service Response
w26891 Andres Drenik
Simon Jäger
Miguel Pascuel Plotkin
Benjamin Schoefer

Paying Outsourced Labor: Direct Evidence from Linked Temp Agency-Worker-Client Data
w26844 Peter Q. Blair
Tomas G. Castagnino
Erica L. Groshen
Papia Debroy
Byron Auguste
Shad Ahmed
Fernando Garcia Diaz
Cristian Bonavida

Searching for STARs: Work Experience as a Job Market Signal for Workers without Bachelor's Degrees
w26733 Oriana Bandiera
Michael Carlos Best
Adnan Qadir Khan
Andrea Prat

The Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats
w26694 Raven Molloy
Christopher Smith
Abigail K. Wozniak

Changing Stability in U.S. Employment Relationships: A Tale of Two Tails
w26680 Peter Q. Blair
David J. Deming

Structural Increases in Skill Demand after the Great Recession
w26660 Jason Sandvik
Richard Saouma
Nathan Seegert
Christopher T. Stanton

Workplace Knowledge Flows
w26627 Moshe A. Barach
John J. Horton

How Do Employers Use Compensation History?: Evidence From a Field Experiment
w26622 Anne A. Brenøe
Serena P. Canaan
Nikolaj A. Harmon
Heather N. Royer

Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?
w26619 Lamar Pierce
Alex Rees-Jones
Charlotte Blank

The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives
w26605 Alexandre Mas
Amanda Pallais

Alternative Work Arrangements
2019
w26548 German Cubas
Chinhui Juhn
Pedro Silos

Coordinated Work Schedules and the Gender Wage Gap
w26530 Zoë B. Cullen
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap
w26519 Simon Jäger
Benjamin Schoefer
Jörg Heining

Labor in the Boardroom
w26484 Joyce He
Sonia Kang
Nicola Lacetera

Leaning In or Not Leaning Out? Opt-Out Choice Framing Attenuates Gender Differences in the Decision to Compete
w26428 Edward P. Lazear
Productivity and Wages: Common Factors and Idiosyncrasies Across Countries and Industries
w26389 Bharat K. Chandar
Ali Hortaçsu
John A. List
Ian Muir
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

Design and Analysis of Cluster-Randomized Field Experiments in Panel Data Settings
w26388 Thomas Bossuroy
Clara Delavallade
Vincent Pons

Biometric Tracking, Healthcare Provision, and Data Quality: Experimental Evidence from Tuberculosis Control
w26387 Enrico Moretti
Daniel J. Wilson

Taxing Billionaires: Estate Taxes and the Geographical Location of the Ultra-Wealthy
w26383 Morris M. Kleiner
Evan J. Soltas

A Welfare Analysis of Occupational Licensing in U.S. States
w26358 Ayal Y. Chen-Zion
James E. Rauch

History Dependence, Cohort Attachment, and Job Referrals in Networks of Close Relationships
w26345 Christine L. Exley
Judd B. Kessler

The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion
w26319 Costas Cavounidis
Kevin Lang
Russell Weinstein

The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers
w26286 Erwin Bulte
John A. List
Daan Van Soest

Toward an Understanding of the Welfare Effects of Nudges: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Uganda
w26271 Conrad Miller
Jennifer Peck
Mehmet Seflek

Integration Costs and Missing Women in Firms
w26078 Gopi Shah Goda
Matthew R. Levy
Colleen Flaherty Manchester
Aaron Sojourner
Joshua Tasoff

Who is a Passive Saver Under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment?
w26021 Victor Lavy
Rigissa Megalokonomou

Persistency in Teachers' Grading Bias and Effects on Longer-Term Outcomes: University Admissions Exams and Choice of Field of Study
w26004 John R. Graham
Hyunseob Kim
Mark T. Leary

CEO-Board Dynamics
w25967 David Card
Stefano DellaVigna
Patricia Funk
Nagore Iriberri

Are Referees and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral?
w25948 Amalia R. Miller
Ragan Petrie
Carmit Segal

Does Workplace Competition Increase Labor Supply? Evidence from a Field Experiment
w25924 Richard Murphy
Why Unions Survive: Understanding How Unions Overcome The Free-Rider Problem
w25920 Guido Friebel
Matthias Heinz
Mitchell Hoffman
Nick Zubanov

What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice
w25902 Petra Persson
Maya Rossin-Slater

When Dad Can Stay Home: Fathers' Workplace Flexibility and Maternal Health
w25885 Gaurab Aryal
Manudeep Bhuller
Fabian Lange

Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments
w25859 Tim Johnson
Dalton Conley

Military Service and Public Sector Employment: Birthdates Called in the Vietnam Draft Lotteries Appear Excessively in the Population of Civilian U.S. Federal Personnel Records
w25858 Stefano DellaVigna
Devin Pope

Stability of Experimental Results: Forecasts and Evidence
w25853 Katharina Janke
Carol Propper
Raffaella Sadun

The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS
w25800 Judd B. Kessler
Corinne Low
Colin Sullivan

Incentivized Resume Rating: Eliciting Employer Preferences without Deception
w25799 Joshua S. Graff Zivin
Lisa B. Kahn
Matthew J. Neidell

Incentivizing Learning-By-Doing: The Role of Compensation Schemes
w25620 Greer K. Gosnell
John A. List
Robert D. Metcalfe

The Impact of Management Practices on Employee Productivity: A Field Experiment with Airline Captains
w25612 Tito Boeri
Andrea Ichino
Enrico Moretti
Johanna Posch

Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation: Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
w25585 Seth G. Benzell
Erik Brynjolfsson

Digital Abundance and Scarce Genius: Implications for Wages, Interest Rates, and Growth
w25548 Jon Kleinberg
Jens Ludwig
Sendhil Mullainathan
Cass R. Sunstein

Discrimination In The Age Of Algorithms
w25507 Richard B. Freeman
Wei Huang
Teng Li

Non-linear Incentives, Worker Productivity, and Firm Profits: Evidence from a Quasi-experiment
w25501 Klenio Barbosa
Fernando V. Ferreira

Occupy Government: Democracy and the Dynamics of Personnel Decisions and Public Sector Performance
w25492 Simon Jäger
Benjamin Schoefer
Josef Zweimüller

Marginal Jobs and Job Surplus: A Test of the Efficiency of Separations
w25470 Ekaterina S. Jardim
Gary Solon
Jacob L. Vigdor

How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? Evidence from Payroll Records in Washington State
w25444 Leah Platt Boustan
Andrew Langan

Variation in Women's Success Across PhD Programs in Economics
w25425 Lawrence F. Katz
Alan B. Krueger

Understanding Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States
w25423 Haoran He
David Neumark
Qian Weng

Do Workers Value Flexible Jobs? A Field Experiment
2018
w25393 Michael W. Elsby
Gary Solon

How Prevalent Is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? International Evidence from Payroll Records and Pay Slips
w25378 Elizabeth L. Doran
Ann P. Bartel
Jane Waldfogel

Gender in the Labor Market: The Role of Equal Opportunity and Family-Friendly Policies
w25365 Peter Kuhn
Kailing Shen
Shuo Zhang

Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Evidence from China
w25357 Joanna N. Lahey
Douglas R. Oxley

Discrimination at the Intersection of Age, Race, and Gender: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment
w25263 Aliza N. Husain
David A. Matsa
Amalia R. Miller

Do Male Workers Prefer Male Leaders? An Analysis of Principals' Effects on Teacher Retention
w25230 Simon Jäger
Benjamin Schoefer
Samuel G. Young
Josef Zweimüller

Wages and the Value of Nonemployment
w25227 Wolfgang Dauth
Sebastian Findeisen
Enrico Moretti
Jens Suedekum

Matching in Cities
w25163 Sarah Bana
Kelly Bedard
Maya Rossin-Slater
Jenna Stearns

Unequal Use of Social Insurance Benefits: The Role of Employers
w25145 Zoë B. Cullen
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

The Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information
w25135 Jason Sandvik
Richard Saouma
Nathan Seegert
Christopher Stanton

Analyzing the Aftermath of a Compensation Reduction
w25125 David A. Matsa
Capital Structure and a Firm's Workforce
w25121 John F. Helliwell
Max B. Norton
Haifang Huang
Shun Wang

Happiness at Different Ages: The Social Context Matters
w25112 Shai Bernstein
Emanuele Colonnelli
Davide Malacrino
Timothy McQuade

Who Creates New Firms When Local Opportunities Arise?
w25093 James J. Heckman
Sidharth Moktan

Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five
w25065 David J. Deming
Kadeem L. Noray

STEM Careers and the Changing Skill Requirements of Work
w25057 Daniel P. Gross
Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production
w25035 Andreas Leibbrandt
John A. List

Do Equal Employment Opportunity Statements Backfire? Evidence From A Natural Field Experiment On Job-Entry Decisions
w25015 Meng Liu
Erik Brynjolfsson
Jason Dowlatabadi

Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis
w24991 Arindrajit Dube
Alan Manning
Suresh Naidu

Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization Explain Why Wages Bunch at Round Numbers
w24961 Yiming Cao
Raymond Fisman
Hui Lin
Yongxiang Wang

Target setting and Allocative Inefficiency in Lending: Evidence from Two Chinese Banks
w24955 Janet M. Currie
W. Bentley MacLeod

Understanding Doctor Decision Making: The Case of Depression
w24922 Victor Lavy
Edith Sand
Moses Shayo

The Surprisingly Small Effects of Religion-Based Discrimination in Education
w24906 Arindrajit Dube
Laura Giuliano
Jonathan Leonard

Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior
w24883 Kevin Lang
Maria Dolores Palacios

The Determinants of Teachers' Occupational Choice
w24879 Ernesto Dal Bó
Frederico Finan
Nicholas Y. Li
Laura Schechter

Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity: Experimental Evidence From Paraguay
w24876 Isaac Mbiti
Karthik Muralidharan
Mauricio Romero
Youdi Schipper
Constantine Manda
Rakesh Rajani

Inputs, Incentives, and Complementarities in Education: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
w24873 Edward P. Lazear
Kristin McCue

What Causes Labor Turnover To Vary?
w24841 Zoë Cullen
Ricardo Perez-Truglia

How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons
w24831 Alan B. Krueger
Orley Ashenfelter

Theory and Evidence on Employer Collusion in the Franchise Sector
w24797 Stefano DellaVigna
Structural Behavioral Economics
w24791 Peter Q. Blair
Bobby W. Chung

Job Market Signaling through Occupational Licensing
w24760 Nicholas Bloom
Hong Cheng
Mark Duggan
Hongbin Li
Franklin Qian

Do CEOs Know Best? Evidence from China
w24732 Cody Cook
Rebecca Diamond
Jonathan Hall
John A. List
Paul Oyer

The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers
w24724 Joshua R. Bruce
John M. de Figueiredo
Brian S. Silverman

Public Contracting for Private Innovation: Government Expertise, Decision Rights, and Performance Outcomes
w24718 Nicholas Bloom
Kalina Manova
John Van Reenen
Stephen Teng Sun
Zhihong Yu

Managing Trade: Evidence from China and the US
w24708 Alma Cohen
Nadav Levy
Roy Sasson

Termination Risk and Agency Problems: Evidence from the NBA
w24661 Richard Hornbeck
Enrico Moretti

Who Benefits From Productivity Growth? Direct and Indirect Effects of Local TFP Growth on Wages, Rents, and Inequality
w24635 Jeffrey Clemens
Lisa B. Kahn
Jonathan Meer

The Minimum Wage, Fringe Benefits, and Worker Welfare
w24587 Henry S. Farber
Daniel Herbst
Ilyana Kuziemko
Suresh Naidu

Unions and Inequality Over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data
w24360 Mitchell Hoffman
Steven Tadelis

People Management Skills, Employee Attrition, and Manager Rewards: An Empirical Analysis
2017
w23300 Nicholas Bloom
Erik Brynjolfsson
Lucia Foster
Ron S. Jarmin
Megha Patnaik
Itay Saporta-Eksten
John Van Reenen

What Drives Differences in Management?
w23248 Oriana Bandiera
Stephen Hansen
Andrea Prat
Raffaella Sadun

CEO Behavior and Firm Performance
w23247 Mitchell Hoffman
Stephen V. Burks

Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-sponsored General Training
w23242 Mark L. Egan
Gregor Matvos
Amit Seru

When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct
w23240 Mitchell Hoffman
Stephen V. Burks

Worker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover and Returns from Training
w23224 John M. Abowd
Kevin L. McKinney
Nellie L. Zhao

Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States: Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data
w23188 Mariana Carrera
Heather Royer
Mark F. Stehr
Justin R. Sydnor

The Structure of Health Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment
w23177 Brigham Frandsen
Michael Powell
James B. Rebitzer

Sticking Points: Common-Agency Problems and Contracting in the U.S. Healthcare System
w23168 Eleanor W. Dillon
Christopher T. Stanton

Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship
w23120 Ernesto Dal Bó
Frederico Finan
Olle Folke
Torsten Persson
Johanna Rickne

Who Becomes a Politician?
w23059 Edward P. Lazear
Kristin McCue

Hires and Separations in Equilibrium
2016
w22992 Philipp Ager
Leonardo Bursztyn
Hans-Joachim Voth

Killer Incentives: Status Competition and Pilot Performance during World War II
w22987 Michael D. Frakes
Melissa F. Wasserman

Procrastination in the Workplace: Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office
w22966 Charles M. Cameron
John M. de Figueiredo
David E. Lewis

Public Sector Personnel Economics: Wages, Promotions, and the Competence-Control Trade-off
w22961 Christine L. Exley
Muriel Niederle
Lise Vesterlund

Knowing When to Ask: The Cost of Leaning In
w22929 Jennifer Brown
David A. Matsa

Locked in by Leverage: Job Search during the Housing Crisis
w22886 Robert Hahn
Robert D. Metcalfe
David Novgorodsky
Michael K. Price

The Behavioralist as Policy Designer: The Need to Test Multiple Treatments to Meet Multiple Targets
w22877 Luca Flabbi
Mario Macis
Andrea Moro
Fabiano Schivardi

Do Female Executives Make a Difference? The Impact of Female Leadership on Gender Gaps and Firm Performance
w22818 Joanna Lahey
Ryan Beasley

Technical Aspects of Correspondence Studies
w22810 Suyoun Han
Morris M. Kleiner

Analyzing the Influence of Occupational Licensing Duration and Grandfathering on Labor Market Outcomes
w22786 Dylan Glover
Amanda Pallais
William Pariente

Discrimination as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from French Grocery Stores
w22772 T. Renee Bowen
George Georgiadis
Nicolas S. Lambert

Collective Choice in Dynamic Public Good Provision
w22708 Alexandre Mas
Amanda Pallais

Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements
w22571 Mitchell Hoffman
Elizabeth Lyons

A Time to Make Laws and a Time to Fundraise? On the Relation between Salaries and Time Use for State Politicians
w22530 Stefan Pichler
Nicolas R. Ziebarth

The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Noncontagious Absenteeism Behavior
w22508 Ioana Marinescu
Ronald Wolthoff

Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function: the Power of Words
w22477 Darren J. Kisgen
Matthew Osborn
Jonathan Reuter

Analyst Promotions within Credit Rating Agencies: Accuracy or Bias?
w22400 Peter Cappelli
Martin Conyon

What Do Performance Appraisals Do?
w22398 C. Kirabo Jackson
Alexey Makarin

Can Online Off-The-Shelf Lessons Improve Student Outcomes? Evidence from A Field Experiment
w22387 Kevin Lang
Russell Weinstein

A Test of Adverse Selection in the Market for Experienced Workers
w22386 John J. Horton
Richard J. Zeckhauser

The Causes of Peer Effects in Production: Evidence from a Series of Field Experiments
w22327 Nicholas Bloom
Raffaella Sadun
John Van Reenen

Management as a Technology?
w22257 Stefano DellaVigna
Attila Lindner
Balázs Reizer
Johannes F. Schmieder

Reference-Dependent Job Search: Evidence from Hungary
w22203 S. Nageeb Ali
Roland Bénabou

Image Versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
w22202 Edward P. Lazear
Kathryn L. Shaw
Christopher T. Stanton

Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Finding an Open Slot
w22200 Petri Böckerman
John Cawley
Jutta Viinikainen
Terho Lehtimäki
Suvi Rovio
Ilkka Seppälä
Jaakko Pehkonen
Olli Raitakari

The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes: an Application of Genetic Instrumental Variables
w22193 Stefano DellaVigna
Devin Pope

What Motivates Effort? Evidence and Expert Forecasts
w22156 W. Bentley MacLeod
Teck Yong Tan

Optimal Contracting with Subjective Evaluation: The Effects of Timing, Malfeasance and Guile
w22117 Suresh Naidu
Noam Yuchtman

Labor Market Institutions in the Gilded Age of American Economic History
w22101 Stefan Bender
Nicholas Bloom
David Card
John Van Reenen
Stefanie Wolter

Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity
w22054 Brian Jacob
Jonah E. Rockoff
Eric S. Taylor
Benjamin Lindy
Rachel Rosen

Teacher Applicant Hiring and Teacher Performance: Evidence from DC Public Schools
w22050 Mark Egan
Gregor Matvos
Amit Seru

The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct
w22043 Stefano DellaVigna
John A. List
Ulrike Malmendier
Gautam Rao

Estimating Social Preferences and Gift Exchange at Work
w22022 David Neumark
Experimental Research on Labor Market Discrimination
w21986 John P. Papay
Eric S. Taylor
John H. Tyler
Mary Laski

Learning Job Skills from Colleagues at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment Using Teacher Performance Data
w21975 Kelly Shue
Richard Townsend

Growth through Rigidity: An Explanation for the Rise in CEO Pay
w21963 Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato
Xiao Yu Wang
Shuang Zhang

The Limits of Meritocracy: Screening Bureaucrats Under Imperfect Verifiability
w21961 Raj Chetty
John N. Friedman
Jonah Rockoff

Using Lagged Outcomes to Evaluate Bias in Value-Added Models
w21891 Joshua S. Gans
Peter Landry

Procrastination in Teams
w21855 David C. Chan
Jr

Informational Frictions and Practice Variation: Evidence from Physicians in Training
w21854 Donald B. Keim
Olivia S. Mitchell

Simplifying Choices in Defined Contribution Retirement Plan Design
2015
w21825 Frederico Finan
Benjamin A. Olken
Rohini Pande

The Personnel Economics of the State
w21806 Joppe de Ree
Karthik Muralidharan
Menno Pradhan
Halsey Rogers

Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on the Impact of an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase on Student Performance in Indonesia
w21709 Mitchell Hoffman
Lisa B. Kahn
Danielle Li

Discretion in Hiring
w21612 Costas Cavounidis
Kevin Lang

Discrimination and Worker Evaluation
w21517 Ben Gillen
Erik Snowberg
Leeat Yariv

Experimenting with Measurement Error: Techniques with Applications to the Caltech Cohort Study
w21478 Peter Berg
Mary K. Hamman
Matthew Piszczek
Christopher J. Ruhm

Can Policy Facilitate Partial Retirement? Evidence from Germany
w21405 Jishnu Das
Alaka Holla
Aakash Mohpal
Karthik Muralidharan

Quality and Accountability in Healthcare Delivery: Audit-Study Evidence from Primary Care in India
w21403 David Card
Ana Rute Cardoso
Patrick Kline

Bargaining, Sorting, and the Gender Wage Gap: Quantifying the Impact of Firms on the Relative Pay of Women
w21382 Robert L. Clark
Emma Hanson
Melinda Sandler Morrill
Aditi Pathak

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