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Two-Way Fixed Effects Estimators with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects [PDF]
The American Economic Review, 2018 Linear regressions with period and group fixed effects are widely used to estimate treatment effects. We show that they estimate weighted sums of the average treatment effects (ATE ) in each group and period, with weights that may be negative. Due to the
C. Chaisemartin, Xavier d'Haultfoeuille
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The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap
The American Economic Review, 2023 Offices are social places. Employees and managers take breaks together and talk about family and hobbies. In this study, we show that employees’ social interactions with their managers can be advantageous for their careers, and that this phenomenon ...
Zoe Cullen, Ricardo Perez-Truglia
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Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019 Using Danish administrative data, we study the impacts of children on gender inequality in the labor market. The arrival of children creates a long-run gender gap in earnings of around 20 percent driven by hours worked, participation, and wage rates.
H. Kleven, Camille Landais, J. Søgaard
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Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2019 We quantify the amount of spatial misallocation of labor across US cities and its aggregate costs. Misallocation arises because high productivity cities like New York and the San Francisco Bay Area have adopted stringent restrictions to new housing ...
Chang-tai Hsieh, E. Moretti
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Incentives Work: Getting Teachers to Come to School
, 2012 We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning in India.
E. Duflo, Rema Hanna, Stephen Ryan
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When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men
American Economic Review: Insights, 2017 We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility ...
David H. Autor +4 more
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The Effect of Population Aging on Economic Growth, the Labor Force, and Productivity
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016 Population aging is expected to slow US economic growth. We use variation in the predetermined component of population aging across states to estimate the impact of aging on growth in GDP per capita for 1980–2010. We find that each 10 percent increase in
Nicole Maestas +2 more
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Who Pays for the Minimum Wage?
The American Economic Review, 2019 This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the margins along which firms responded to a large and persistent minimum wage increase in Hungary.
P. Harasztosi, A. Lindner
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Skill Remoteness and Post-Layoff Labor Market Outcomes
Social Science Research NetworkLocal skill remoteness captures the dissimilarity between the skill profiles of a worker’s last job and other jobs in a local labor market. Higher skill remoteness at layoff is associated with persistently lower earnings after layoff, a higher ...
Claudia Macaluso
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Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development
Social Science Research NetworkThis paper shows that self-employment shapes labor market power in low-income countries, with implications for industrial development. Using Peruvian data, we find that wage-setting power increases with employer concentration but less so where self ...
Francesco Amodio +2 more
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