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Teaching Fields: Labor Economics and Econometrics |
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Publications Links are to
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1. Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes, joint with Joseph G. Altonji and Prashant Bharadwaj, Journal of Labor Economics, 2011. See also: The Anemic Response of
Skill Investment to Skill Premium Growth at VoxEU http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1110.
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Explaining
the Rise in Educational Gradients in Mortality, joint with David Cutler, Ellen Meara, Seth
Richards and Christopher Ruhm, Journal
of Health Economics, 30 (2011) pp 43-54. 3. Education and Allocative Efficiency. Evidence from Cancer Screening, Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011), pp. 43-54. 4. “The Speed
of Employer Learning”, Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 25, Number
1, January 2007. (H.G.Lewis
Prize: Best Paper in the Journal of Labor Economics 2006-2007. IZA
Young Labor Economist Award 2008: Best Paper by a Labor Economist under the
age of 40. ) 5. “The
Social Value of Education and Human Capital”, joint with Robert
Topel, Handbook of Education Economics, 2006, Vol.1, eds. Eric Hanushek and
Finis Welch. 6. Chronic Disease Burden and the
Interaction of Education, Fertility and Growth, joint with Hoyt
Bleakley, Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2009, 91(1). 7. The Impact of the
Boll-Weevil 1892-1940, joint with Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode, The Journal
of Economic History, vol 69, issue 03 (Sept. 2009), pp. 685-718. 8. Book Review on “The
Economics of Education: Human Capital, Family Background, and Inequality”,
Journal of Economic Literature, Vol
45 (1) March 2007. 9. “Working? The West German Labor Market 1964-2001.
Latin American Journal of Economics, 40 (December 2003), 121, pp. 495-503. |
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Working
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1. Learning about Employee and Employer Learning: Dynamics of Performance and Wage Measures, joint with Lisa Kahn, under submission. 2. The Evolution of Latent Health over the Life Course, joint with Doug McKee, presented at 2011 AEA meetings. 3. Fertility Transitions Along the Extensive and Intensive Margin, joint with Dan Aaronson and Bhash Mazumder Working paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. 4. Performance Evaluations and Careers: Similarities and Differences across Firms, joint with Anders Frederiksen and Ben Kriechel. 5.
Equipping
Immigrants: Migration Flows and Capital Movements, joint with Doug Gollin, IZA
working paper 2745 and CreAM Discussion Paper
Series 0914, under submission. |
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Projects |
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1. Duration Dependence in Unemployment: An Audit Study, joint with Kory Kroft and Matt Notowidigdo. 2. The Role of Dynamics in the Health-Education Gradient, joint with Doug McKee. 3. Health across the Generations, joint with Costas Meghir and Marten Palme. 4. Predicting Earnings Inequality in 2030 – The Role of Labor and Skill Supply, joint with Rebecca Edwards. 5. Employee or Employer Learning?, joint with Seik Kim. 6. Health, Retirement, and the Viability of Social Security, joint with Agar Brugiavini and Doug McKee. |
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Data Links AFQT Matching
Procedure used in Altonji, Bharadwaj, Lange (2009) Code and Data |