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40400, Advanced Labor Economics
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The minimum wage
Card,
David and Alan Krueger. 1994. “Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of
the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania,” American Economic
Review, 84(4): 772-793.
A.
Dube, T.W. Lester, and M. Reich. (2010) “Minimum
Wage Effects across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties,”
Review of Economics and Statistics, 92(4), 945-64.
Employment
Protection
Jacob,
Brian, 2010 “The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: Evidence
from Public Schooling,” Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 31, No. 4 (October
2013), pp. 727-761.
Unions
DiNardo, J., and D.S.
Lee. 2004. “Economic Impacts of New Unionization on Private Sector Employers:
1984-2001.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 119(4): 1328-1441.
Mandated benefits
Acemoglu, D., and J. Angrist. 2001. “Consequences of
Employment Protection: The Case of the Americans with Disabilities Act.”
Journal of Political Economy. 109(5).
Gruber,
Jonathan (1994), “The Incidence of Mandated Maternity Benefits,” American
Economic Review, Vol. 84, No. 3. (Jun., 1994), pp. 622-641.
Labor Supply
Angrist,
Joshua and William Evans. 1998 “Children and Their Parents’ Labor Supply:
Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size.” American Economic Review
88:450-77.
Imbens, Guido, Donald B. Rubin, and Bruce I. Sacerdote (2001), “Estimating the Effect of Unearned
Income on Labor Earnings, Savings, and Consumption: Evidence from a Survey of
Lottery Players,” American Economic Review, v91(4,Sep), 778-794.
Garthwaite, C., Tal Gross, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo (2014), “Public Health Insurance, Labor
Supply, and
Employment
Lock,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 653–696.
Eissa,
Nada and Jeffrey B. Liebman, “Labor Supply Response
to the Earned Income Tax Credit,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 111,
No. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 605-637.
Randomized Controlled Trials and Impact
Evaluation
Angrist,
Joshua and William Evans. 1998 “Children and Their Parents’ Labor Supply:
Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size.” American Economic Review
88:450-77.
Imbens, Guido, Donald B. Rubin, and Bruce I. Sacerdote (2001), “Estimating the Effect of Unearned Income
on Labor Earnings, Savings, and Consumption: Evidence from a Survey of
Lottery Players,” American Economic Review, v91(4,Sep), 778-794.
Eissa,
Nada and Jeffrey B. Liebman, “Labor Supply Response
to the Earned Income Tax Credit,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 111,
No. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 605-637.
Duflo, Esther, Rachel Glennerster,
and Michael Kremer (2006), “Using Randomization in Development Economics
Research Research: A Toolkit, working paper.
J. Ludwig,
J. Kling, and S. Mullainathan. (2011) “Mechanism Experiments and Policy
Evaluations,”
Journal of Economic Perspectives 25 (Summer), 17-38.
Welfare Reform
Grogger,
Jeffrey and Charles Michalopoulos. 2003. "Welfare Dynamics under Time
Limits." Journal of Political Economy 111(3), 530-554.
Fertility
Goldin,
Claudia & Lawrence F. Katz, 2002. "The Power of the Pill: Oral
Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions," Journal of
Political Economy, vol. 110(4), pages 730-770, August.
Goldin, Katz and Kuziemko,
“The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender
Gap,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 20 (Fall 2006), pp. 133-56.
The
returns to education
Angrist,
J.D. 1990. “Lifetime Earnings and the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery: Evidence
from Social Security Administrative Records.” American Economic Review. 80:
313-336.
Angrist,
Joshua and Alan Krueger (1991). “Does compulsory schooling attendance affect
schooling and earnings?” Quarterly Journal of Economics 106:969-1014.
Buckles,
Kasey and Dan Hungerman. 2008.
"Season of Birth and Later Outcomes: Old Questions, New Answers," Quarterly
Journal of Economics, XCV(3): 711-724.
R.
Chetty, J. Friedman, N. Hilger, E. Saez, D. Schanzenbach, and D. Yagan. (2011) “How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom
Affect Your Earnings? Evidence from Project STAR” Quarterly Journal of
Economics 126 (November), 1593-1660.
William
N. Evans and Robert Schwab, “Finishing High School and Starting College: Do
Catholic Schools Make a Difference?” Quarterly Journal of Economics, November
1995, 110 (4), 941-974.
Tyler, Murnane, and Willett (2000), “Estimating the labor market
signaling value of the GED.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXV(2), 431–468.
E. Bettinger et al. (2012) “The Role of Application
Assistance and Information in College Enrollment Decisions: Results from the
H&R Block FAFSA Experiment,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 127 (August),
1205-42.
S. Dale
and A. Krueger. (2002) "Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More
Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables," Quarterly Journal of Economics 117
(Nov), 1491-1527.
Job
Training
R. LaLonde. (1986) "Evaluating the Econometric
Evaluations of Training Programs with Experimental Data," American
Economic Review 76 (September), 604-620.
School
choice
W.G
Howell, et al., “Test Score Effects of School Vouchers in Dayton, Ohio, New
York City and Washington, DC: Evidence
from Randomized Field Trials,” August 2000.
Dobbie,
Will and Fryer, Roland G. (2011), “Are High Quality Schools Enough to Close
the Achievement Gap? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Harlem,” American
Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(3): 158-87.
D.
Deming, J. Hastings, T. Kane, and D. Staiger. (2012) “School Choice, School
Quality, and Academic Achievement,” American Economic Review
2014, 104(3): 991–1013.
J. Hastings and
J. Weinstein. (2008) “Information, School Choice and Academic Achievement:
Evidence from Two Experiments,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123
(November), 1373-1414.
A.
Abdulkadiroğlu, J. Angrist, S. Dynarski, T. Kane, and P. Pathak. (2011) “Accountability
and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and
Pilots,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126(2), 699-748.
J.
Angrist, P. Pathak, and C. Walters. (2011), “Explaining Charter School
Effectiveness,” NBER WP No. 17332, August.
Migration
/ neighborhood effects
Jacob, Brian,
2004. “Public Housing, Housing
Vouchers, and Student Achievement: Evidence from Public Housing Demolitions,”
American Economic Review, Vol. 94, No. 1 (March), pp. 233-258.
Kling,
Jeffrey R., Jeffrey B. Liebman, and Lawrence F.
Katz, “Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects,” Econometrica
75 (January 2007), 83-119.
J. Ludwig et al.
(2011) “Neighborhoods, Obesity, and Diabetes – A Randomized Social
Experiment,” New England Journal of Medicine 365 (October 20), pp. 1509-19.
J. Ludwig et al.
(2012) “Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income
Adults,” Science 337 (Sept 21), 1505-10.
Evans, Sullivan, Wallskog (2016), “The Impact of Homelessness Prevention
Programs on Homelessness,” Science, 353(6300), 694-699.
Chetty, Raj, Nathaniel Hendren,
and Lawrence Katz (2016). “The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on
Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Project,” American Economic Review, 106(4):
855–902.
Immigration
Card,
David. 2001. “Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market
Impacts of Higher Immigration,” Journal of Labor Economics, 19(1): 22-64.
Card,
David (1990), “The Impact of the Mariel Boat Lift on the Miami Labor Market,”
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January, pp. 245-257.
Borjas, George J., "The Labor Demand Curve Is
Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor
Market," Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, (4) (November 2003):
1335-1374.
Discrimination
Claudia
Goldin and Cecilia Rouse, “Orchestrating Impartiality,” American Economic
Review 90 (September 2000), pp. 715-41.
Neumark, David,
Roy J. Bank and Kyle D. Van Nort, “ Sex Discrimination
in Restaurant Hiring: An Audit Study,” Quarterly
Journal of Economics, Vol. 111, No. 3 (Aug., 1996), pp. 915-941.
Muriel Nierderle and Lise Vesterlund, “Do Women Shy Away from Competition? Do Men
Compete Too Much?” Quarterly Journal of Economics 122 (August 2007), pp.
1067-101.
Price, Joseph
and Justin Wolfers (2010), “Racial Discrimination
Among NBA Referees,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (4): 1859-1887.
Kahn,
Lawrence M. and Peter D. Sherer. “Racial Differences in Professional
Basketball Players' Compensation.”
Journal of
Labor Economics, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Jan., 1988),
pp. 40-61.
Bertrand,
Marianne and Sendhil Mullainathan. 2004. “Are Emily
and Greg more Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor
Market Discrimination,” American Economic Review, 94(4): 991-1013.
Levitt,
Steve and Roland Fryer, "The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively
Black Names." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004, 119(3), pp. 767-805.
Inequality,
poverty, and well-being
Juhn,
Chinhui, Kevin M. Murphy and Brooks Pierce,
"Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill," Journal of
Political Economy, 101 (3), June 1993, 410-442.
Aguiar, Mark and Erik Hurst. Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time Over Five Decades.
Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2007, Vol. 122, No. 3, 969-1006.
Lee, David.
1999. “Wage Inequality in the United States During the 1980s: Rising
Dispersion or Falling Minimum Wage?” Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 114(3), August, 977-1023.
Hoynes, Hilary, Marianne Page, and Ann Huff Stevens. 2006.
“Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Winter), pp.
47-68.
Meyer,
Bruce D. and James X. Sullivan (2007): “Winning the War: Poverty from the
Great Society to the Great Recession,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity,
Fall, p. 133-183.
Meyer, Bruce
D. and James X. Sullivan (2012): “Identifying the Disadvantaged: Official
Poverty, Consumption Poverty, and the New Supplemental Poverty Measure,”
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26: 111-136.
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