Many studies have estimated the effect of circumstances on income acquisition. Perhaps surprisingly, the fraction of inequality attributable to circumstances is usually quite small - in the advanced democracies, on the order of 20%. One reason for this is the lack of data on circumstance...

This study investigates whether the increases in connectivity across cities help reduce the gender gap in labor market outcomes —a question for which there is limited prior evidence. With its high level of gender disparity, South Korea provides an ideal setting to study this issue thanks to...

A substantial body of prior research investigates how skills and attributes of upper management affect firm policies and performance, but the impact of workers outside of upper management has received little attention due to scarcity of data involving lower-level workers. We propose that...

The major contribution of this paper is ending a new and flexible way to measure the effects of selection on log-wages. In this context, we offer a general approach to performing decomposition analysis when selection effects are present. We call the difference between unconditional and...