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A Goodness of Fit Test of Dual Labor Market Theory 0 0 0 88 3 5 8 499
A Test of Adverse Selection in the Market for Experienced Workers 1 1 1 21 2 2 3 53
A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory 0 1 2 722 6 19 33 4,402
A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets 0 0 0 32 2 3 5 106
A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets 0 0 0 15 3 4 4 85
A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets 0 0 0 8 1 1 3 55
Ability Bias, Discount Rate Bias and the Return to Education 0 0 1 422 9 19 38 1,485
An Analysis of the Nature of Unemployment in Sri Lanka 0 0 0 567 3 3 4 3,486
Are All Economic Hypotheses False? 0 0 0 383 2 6 8 917
Are Efficiency Wages Efficient? 1 1 1 151 5 14 18 474
Ben-Porath meets Lazear: Lifetime Skill Investment and Occupation Choice with Multiple Skills 0 0 0 26 3 7 9 75
Bilateral Search as an Explanation for Labor Market Segmentation and Other Anomalies 0 0 0 61 6 8 9 436
Comments 0 0 0 1 5 8 9 10
Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency vs. Specific-Capital 0 0 0 46 2 4 7 292
Discrimination and Worker Evaluation 0 0 0 52 5 5 7 107
Do Elite Universities Overpay Their Faculty? 0 0 0 7 6 7 12 26
Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore 0 1 1 49 4 15 20 220
Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore 0 0 1 80 3 9 11 128
Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program 0 0 3 495 6 11 20 2,166
Does the Human-Capital/Educational-Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy? 0 0 0 125 1 1 3 497
Education and Labor-Market Discrimination 0 0 0 74 4 11 16 375
Education and Labor-Market Discrimination 0 0 0 260 1 2 7 883
Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased 0 1 1 39 5 8 17 216
Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased 0 0 0 24 7 11 17 64
Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased 0 0 0 14 9 15 18 91
Employee Crime and the Monitoring Puzzle 0 0 0 17 3 4 6 124
Employee Crime, Monitoring, and the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis 0 0 0 115 5 8 11 744
Evaluating Student Outcomes at For-Profit Colleges 0 0 0 38 2 4 10 178
How Credible is the Credibility Revolution? 0 0 4 20 2 6 21 63
How Discrimination and Bias Shapes Outcomes 0 1 2 33 3 5 9 108
How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program 0 0 0 217 5 8 9 1,253
How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program 0 0 0 410 4 4 9 2,176
Hukou and Guanxi: How Social Discrimination and Networks Impact Intrahousehold Allocations in China 0 0 0 29 1 4 6 43
Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence 1 1 3 1,410 4 14 22 6,190
Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium 0 0 0 87 6 7 7 426
Labor Market Segmentation, Wage Dispersion and Unemployment 0 1 1 202 4 7 9 760
Language Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition 0 0 0 0 7 16 16 769
Language-Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition 0 0 0 145 5 8 9 1,139
Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks 0 0 0 19 4 5 8 71
Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks 1 2 2 14 5 24 25 45
Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks 0 0 1 11 4 9 16 70
Measurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member 0 0 0 55 2 4 4 171
Neoclassical and Sociological Perspectives on Segmented Labor Markets 0 0 0 251 8 10 13 1,069
Obsolescence Rents: Teamsters, Truckers, and Impending Innovations 0 0 0 12 3 6 8 33
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE LABOR MARKET: THEORY AND EMPIRICS 0 0 0 17 3 7 12 160
Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective 0 0 1 21 10 13 18 110
Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers 0 0 0 212 4 7 12 961
Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics 0 1 2 149 6 14 20 835
School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE 0 0 0 12 3 3 6 147
School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE 0 0 1 103 6 11 20 441
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 12 2 3 5 115
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 48 4 6 6 91
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 94 1 3 6 295
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 15 8 10 12 95
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 49 5 12 13 142
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 1 1 50 3 8 10 72
THE RETURN TO ENGLISH IN A NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY: RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS AND NATIVE ISRAELIS IN ISRAEL 0 0 0 22 4 10 10 224
THE RETURN TO ENGLISH IN A NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY: RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS AND NATIVE ISRAELIS IN ISRAEL 0 0 0 16 3 5 6 203
Testing Dual Labor Market Theory: A Reconsideration of the Evidence 0 0 1 166 4 10 14 851
The Black-White Education-Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7 0 0 0 47 0 1 2 108
The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers 0 0 0 16 4 4 7 93
The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers 0 0 0 3 2 9 15 22
The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers 0 1 1 7 3 7 8 17
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing 0 0 0 144 5 8 13 952
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe v Wade 0 0 0 31 10 11 15 140
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Consistent Estimates When Abortion Makes Miscarriage Nonrandom 0 0 0 23 1 3 5 187
The Determinants of Teachers' Occupational Choice 0 0 0 7 4 6 10 27
The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration 0 1 1 74 6 10 12 176
The Effect of the Payroll Tax on Earnings: A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination 0 0 0 90 4 10 11 626
The Effect of the Payroll Tax on Earnings: A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination 0 0 0 106 5 7 9 627
The Effects of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates 0 0 0 78 2 6 8 274
The Evolution of Skill Use Within and Between Jobs 0 0 1 18 3 5 10 56
The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results 0 0 1 30 5 11 13 129
The Nature of Technological Change 1960-2016 0 0 1 22 6 9 19 30
The Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear: Theory and Implications 0 0 0 87 4 7 10 544
The Promise and Pitfalls of Differences-in-Differences: Reflections on ‘16 and Pregnant’ and Other Applications 0 0 1 76 7 15 31 240
The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel 0 0 3 62 3 4 12 775
The Role of Social Ties in the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 170 5 7 8 467
The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales 0 0 1 157 7 12 22 420
The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales: Empirical Results 0 0 1 92 1 3 8 107
The Wage Effects of Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Certifications: Better Data, Somewhat Different Results 0 0 0 32 1 1 3 118
Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel 0 0 0 21 3 4 9 217
Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel 0 0 0 1 5 13 17 92
Why Was there Mandatory Retirement? or the Impossibility of Efficient Bonding Contracts 0 0 0 59 3 5 7 544
Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage 0 0 0 0 4 4 5 44
Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage 0 0 0 20 1 2 4 158
Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage 0 0 0 14 1 4 4 129
Total Working Papers 4 14 41 9,320 351 661 991 44,641


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A Language Theory of Discrimination 1 1 2 599 53 135 148 2,338
A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory 0 0 2 630 8 13 30 3,529
An economic model of the intake disposition of juvenile offenders 0 0 0 15 1 1 2 88
Are All Economic Hypotheses False? 0 2 6 302 4 9 16 1,118
Bargaining Piecemeal or All at Once? 0 0 0 45 2 4 7 325
Ben-Porath Meets Lazear: Microfoundations for Dynamic Skill Formation 0 0 1 10 2 6 24 105
Borrowing in an Illegal Market: Contracting with Loan Sharks 1 1 12 14 9 17 52 56
Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency Versus Specific-Capital 0 0 2 14 4 5 10 99
Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore 0 0 4 13 4 7 14 156
Does Growing up with a Parent Absent Really Hurt? 0 0 9 379 6 14 46 1,924
Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program 0 0 0 318 4 11 18 1,334
Does the Human-Capital/Educational-Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy? 0 0 0 4 1 8 10 470
Education and Labor Market Discrimination 0 1 1 172 1 5 10 689
Efficiency Wage Models of Unemployment: A Second View 0 0 0 0 4 6 11 506
Efficient Estimation of Structural Hedonic Systems 0 0 0 119 9 9 12 421
Effort and wages: Evidence from the payroll tax 0 0 0 3 3 3 5 24
Employee Crime and the Monitoring Puzzle 0 0 0 101 5 9 12 707
Hours Constraints and the Wage/Hours Locus 0 0 0 0 3 5 9 152
How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution? 0 1 7 7 4 23 34 34
Human Capital Versus Sorting: The Effects of Compulsory Attendance Laws 2 3 11 613 8 13 30 1,474
Inference with Difference-in-Differences and Other Panel Data 4 15 54 2,730 11 33 109 5,857
Is intervention fadeout a scaling artefact? 0 0 1 5 5 11 15 41
Job Signalling and Welfare Improving Minimum Wage Laws: Reply 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 122
Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium 0 0 1 42 2 4 6 256
Language-skill complementarity: returns to immigrant language acquisition 0 0 3 148 6 13 25 674
Measurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member 0 0 0 42 0 0 1 211
Monitoring for Worker Quality 0 0 0 19 0 2 3 65
Pareto Improving Minimum Wage Laws 0 0 0 0 2 6 7 255
Partnerships as Insurance Devices: Theory and Evidence 0 0 0 64 1 1 1 270
Persistent Wage Dispersion and Involuntary Unemployment 0 0 0 29 4 5 7 179
Property taxes and property values: evidence from Proposition 1 1 2 52 5 7 15 216
Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective 0 0 3 37 15 23 45 263
Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers 0 0 1 131 3 5 11 446
Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics 0 0 6 229 15 49 157 1,039
Racial Realism: A Review Essay on John Skrentny's After Civil Rights 0 0 0 20 5 6 8 181
Relative Wages, Wage Growth, and Quit Behavior 0 0 0 65 3 7 9 347
Returns to Schooling, Implicit Discount Rates and Black-White Wage Differentials 0 0 1 85 7 10 13 268
School Entry, Educational Attainment, and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of a Local Average Treatment Effect 0 1 1 50 7 13 20 171
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants 0 0 0 3 3 7 9 116
THE PRICING OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS WHEN MARKETS DO NOT CLEAR: THEORY AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS 0 0 0 68 7 9 11 365
The Black–White Education Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7 0 0 0 18 2 3 6 84
The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers 0 0 0 1 8 27 30 39
The Causes of Hours Constraints: Evidence from Canada 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 206
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing before Roe v. Wade 0 1 1 26 6 11 14 226
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Consistent Estimates When Abortion Makes Miscarriage Non‐random 0 0 0 23 5 9 14 221
The Contractors' Game 1 1 1 119 6 7 8 928
The Effect of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates 1 1 1 105 7 10 15 406
The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Wages and Employment: The Case of New Zealand 0 0 0 128 1 5 8 526
The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K–3: The Fragility of Results 0 0 2 95 0 1 26 369
The Promise and Pitfalls of Differences-in-Differences: Reflections on 16 and Pregnant and Other Applications 0 5 14 43 8 24 69 191
The Reemergence of Segmented Labor Market Theory 0 0 4 294 3 4 12 1,044
The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel 0 0 0 67 5 9 10 410
The Sad Truth about Happiness Scales 1 1 4 78 9 13 37 462
The effect of minimum-wage laws on the distribution of employment: theory and evidence 0 0 0 364 7 11 12 811
The wage effects of not-for-profit and for-profit certifications: Better data, somewhat different results 0 0 1 33 2 2 5 192
Trends in Self-reported Spontaneous Abortions: 1970–2000 0 0 0 10 0 1 2 57
Wage announcements with a continuum of worker type 0 0 0 4 1 3 4 23
Why are Canadian and US Unemployment Rates So Highly Correlated? 0 0 0 68 1 1 4 482
Why is an elite undergraduate education valuable? Evidence from Israel 0 0 0 32 1 10 14 242
Why was there mandatory retirement? 0 0 0 49 2 5 8 136
Total Journal Articles 12 35 158 8,734 313 674 1,275 33,946


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Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased* 0 0 1 7 2 8 13 38
Introduction to Poverty and Discrimination 0 0 1 501 3 4 10 5,856
Undocumented Mexican-born Workers in the United States: How Many, How Permanent? 0 0 0 59 4 5 9 249
Why Do Firms Monitor Workers? 0 0 0 0 4 5 9 12
Total Chapters 0 0 2 567 13 22 41 6,155


Statistics updated 2026-02-12