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Minimum wages and racial discrimination in hiring : evidence from a field experiment

Brandon, Alec; Holz, Justin E.; Simon, Andrew; Uchida, … - 2023

When minimum wages increase, employers may respond to the regulatory burdens by substituting away from disadvantaged workers. We test this hypothesis using a correspondence study with 35,000 applications around ex-ante uncertain minimum wage increases in three U.S. states. Before the increases,...

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Salary history and employer demand : evidence from a two-sided audit

Agan, Amanda; Cowgill, Bo; Gee, Laura K. - 2022

silence. When we simulate the effect of salary history bans using our results, we find muted effects on callbacks. Gender …

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Genes, education, and labor market outcomes : evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Thom, Kevin - 2017

market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We demonstrate that the same genetic score that predicts education … is also associated with higher wages, but only among individuals with a college education. Moreover, the genetic gradient …

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College attainment, income inequality, and economic security : a simulation exercise

Hershbein, Brad; Kearney, Melissa Schettini; Pardue, Luke W. - 2020

We conduct an empirical simulation exercise that gauges the plausible impact of increased rates of college attainment on a variety of measures of income inequality and economic insecurity. Using two different methodological approaches-a distributional approach and a causal parameter approach-we...

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Medical innovation, education, and labor market outcomes of cancer patients

Jeon, Sung-hee; Pohl, Vincent - 2019

innovation are limited to cancer patients with postsecondary education, raising concerns about unequal access to improved …

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Degrees of poverty : the relationship between family income background and the returns to education

Bartik, Timothy J.; Hershbein, Brad - 2018

prevalence and robustness of these differential returns to education across race and gender, finding that they are driven by … those whose education stopped at high school. However, for individuals whose family income during high school was below 1 …

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Beyond degrees: longer term outcomes of the Kalamazoo Promise

Hershbein, Brad; McMullen, Isabel; Pittelko, Brian; … - 2021

scholarship. Drawing upon administrative unemployment insurance wage records merged with individual-level education data, we …

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The decline of routine tasks, education investments, and intergenerational mobility

Bennett, Patrick; Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

How does a large structural change to the labor market affect education investments made at young ages? Exploiting … decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in … vocational-trades education and increasingly invest in college education. Our results highlight that labor demand changes impact …

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Job search and hiring with two-sided limited information about workseekers' skills

Carranza Noguera, Eliana; Garlick, Robert; Orkin, Kate; … - 2020

We present field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers' skills distorts both firm and workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers' skills, giving workseekers their assessment results, and helping them to credibly share the results with firms increases workseekers'...

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Nudges to increase completion of welfare applications: experimental evidence from Michigan

O'Leary, Christopher J.; Oberlee, Dallas; Pepin, Gabrielle - 2020

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program provides cash assistance to very-low-income families with children. Application procedures to receive TANF benefits, however, often involve substantial transaction costs likely to reduce take-up. We estimate, through a randomized...

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