Studies of minority hiring have found that poor-performing firms or firms in highly competitive contexts are more likely to hire minority candidates. However, most work has examined hiring for entry and mid-level positions, not senior management. Management positions differ in terms of the...

Do teachers' expectations directly impact student achievement? We draw on administrative data from North Carolina schools that report both student test scores and teachers' expectations of students' performance on these tests. Employing student fixed effects and instrumental variables strategies...

This article is based on a qualitative study of the relationships between professionals, parents and children in the context of children's therapy after child sexual abuse. Specifically, the study took place in a therapeutic team in England that has developed various ways of involving parents in...

School closings displace thousands of teachers in the US every year. This paper explores how 3rd to 5th grade teachers in North Carolina respond to this labor market shock. After documenting that declining enrollment is a key driver of school closings in our study, we find that while most...

This paper provides new evidence on the political and policy consequences of partisan vs. nonpartisan local elections in the context of school board elections in North Carolina. Specifically, we study the impacts of shifting to partisan elections in a difference-in-differences framework. First,...

This paper presents a joint analysis of labour market flexibility and product market structure. Our investigation confirms earlier results of imperfect competition in South African manufacturing indusry, with an average mark-up of 50% for the period 1970 to 2004, without consistent trend in the...

We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate data on close to 117,000 house sales, we find that houses with address number ending in four are...