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On the Role of Learning, Human Capital, and Performance Incentives for Wages
Camargo, Braz; Lange, Fabian; Pastorino, Elena - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Performance pay in general amounts to only a small fraction of total pay. In this paper, we show that performance pay is nevertheless important for the level and dynamics of wages over the life cycle because of the incentives it indirectly provides for human capital acquisition and because of...
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Skill Depreciation during Unemployment : Evidence from Panel Data
Cohen, Jonathan P.; Johnston, Andrew; Lindner, Attila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration …
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Screening with Multitasking
Dinerstein, Michael; Opper, Isaac M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
What happens when employers would like to screen their employees but only observe a subset of output? We specify a model in which heterogeneous employees respond by producing more of the observed output at the expense of the unobserved output. Though this substitution distorts output in the...
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Spillover Effects at School : How Black Teachers affect their White Peers' Racial Competency
Gershenson, Seth; Lindsay, Constance A.; Papageorge, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Do white teachers learn racial competency from their Black peers? We answer this question using a mixed-methods approach. Longitudinal administrative data from North Carolina show that having a Black same-grade peer significantly improves the achievement and reduces the suspension rates of white...
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Reducing Bullying : Evidence from a Parental Involvement Program on Empathy Education
Cunha, Flávio; Hu, Qinyou; Xia, Yiming; Zhao, Naibao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
According to UNESCO, one-third of the world's youths are victims of bullying, which deteriorates academic performance and mental health, and increases suicide ideation and the risk of committing suicide. This paper analyzes a four-month parent-directed intervention designed to foster empathy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537721
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The Effects of Teacher Quality on Adult Criminal Justice Contact
Rose, Evan K.; Schellenberg, Jonathan T.; Shem-Ṭov, Yotam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper estimates teachers' impacts on their students' future criminal justice contact (CJC). Using a unique data set linking the universe of North Carolina public school data to administrative arrest records, we find a standard deviation of teacher effects on students' future arrests of 2.7...
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Marginal Returns to Public Universities
Mountjoy, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universities in Texas, which collectively enroll 10 percent of American public university students, to systematically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528336
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Bonus Question : Does Flexible Incentive Pay Dampen Unemployment Dynamics?
Gaur, Meghana; Grigsby, John R.; Hazell, Jonathon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We introduce dynamic incentive contracts into a model of unemployment dynamics and present three results. First, wage … cyclicality from incentives does not dampen unemployment dynamics: the response of unemployment to shocks is first … cyclicality from bargaining dampens unemployment dynamics through the standard mechanism. Third, our calibrated model suggests 46 …
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The Importance of a Helping Hand in Education and in Life
Gallego, Francisco A.; Oreopoulos, Philip; Spencer, Noah - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper discusses the importance of incorporating personal assistance into interventions aimed at improving long-term education and labor market success. While existing research demonstrates the cost-effectiveness of low-touch behavioral nudges, this paper argues that the dynamic nature of...
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The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment
Deshpande, Manasi; Dizon-Ross, Rebecca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How does the expectation that a child will receive government benefits in adulthood affect parental investments in the child's human capital? Most parents whose children receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits overestimate the likelihood that their child will receive SSI benefits in...
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