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Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration
The American Economic Review, 2022 This paper shows that racial composition shocks during the Great Migration (1940–1970) reduced the gains from growing up in the northern United States for Black families and can explain 27 percent of the region’s racial upward mobility gap today.
Ellora Derenoncourt
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Fatherless: The Long-Term Effects of Losing a Father in the U.S. Civil War
The Journal of human resources, 2023 We use the U.S. Civil War, in which more than 650,000 soldiers perished, as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of losing a father on children’s long-run socioeconomic outcomes.
Yannick Dupraz, Andreas Ferrara
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Between the Dockyard and the Deep Blue Sea: Retention and Personnel Economics in the Royal Navy
Social Science Research Network, 2023 IZA DP No. 14037 JANUARY 2021 Between the Dockyard and the Deep Blue Sea: Retention and Personnel Economics in the Royal Navy This paper tackles some issues in personnel economics using the career profiles of British naval officers during the late 19th ...
D. Glaser, Ahmed S. Rahman
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The Wage Effects of Employers' Associations: A Case Study of the Private Schools Sector
Social Science Research Network, 2023 IZA DP No. 16476 SEPTEMBER 2023 The Wage Effects of Employers’ Associations: A Case Study of the Private Schools Sector* Does employers’ association (EA) membership affect wages?
Pedro S. Martins
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The Effect of Reducing Welfare Access on Employment, Health, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes
Social Science Research Network, 2023 IZA DP No. 16516 OCTOBER 2023 The Effect of Reducing Welfare Access on Employment, Health, and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes* Welfare caseloads in North America halved following reforms in the 1990s and 2000s.
Jeffrey Hicks +3 more
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Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five
Journal of Economic Literature, 2018 This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in top five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure–track economists hired by the top 35 US economics departments,
J. Heckman, Sidharth Moktan
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Gender and Career Progression in Academia: European Evidence
Social Science Research Network, 2023 IZA DP No. 16206 JUNE 2023 Gender and Career Progression in Academia: European Evidence We study career trajectories of university researchers in Europe, with a particular emphasis on the speed of career progression by gender.
L. Morettini, M. Tani
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Social Science Research Network, 2022 This paper provides new evidence on the causal impacts of citywide racial segregation on intergenerational mobility. We use an instrumental variable approach that relies on plausibly exogenous variation in segregation due to the arrangement of railroad ...
Eric Chyn, Kareem Haggag, B. Stuart
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From Polluting to Green Jobs: A Seamless Transition in the U.S.?
IMF Working Papers, 2022 What are the implications of the needed climate transition for the potential reallocation of the U.S. labor force? This paper dissects green and polluting jobs in the United States across local labor markets, industries and at the household-level.
Ippei Shibata +2 more
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Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior
The American Economic Review, 2018 We analyze how separations responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages at a large US retailer. Regression-discontinuity estimates imply large causal effects of own-wages on separations, and on quits in particular.
Arindrajit Dubé +2 more
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