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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy 0 0 3 77 0 0 4 156
A New Strategy to Identify Causal Relationships: Estimating a Binding Average Treatment Effect 0 0 0 32 0 0 2 39
COVID-19 Vaccine and Risk-Taking 0 0 2 3 0 0 7 12
Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work? A Nonparametric Assessment 0 0 0 368 0 1 5 1,634
Do School Budgets Matter? The Effect of Budget Referenda on Student Performance 0 1 1 85 0 1 3 180
Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance 0 0 3 138 0 0 5 485
Earnings Over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications 1 2 4 858 3 7 36 2,837
Estimating Labor Force Joiners and Leavers Using a Heterogeneity Augmented Two-Tier Stochastic Frontier 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 61
Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation 0 0 0 182 0 1 4 780
Heterogeneity in Schooling Rates of Return 0 0 0 97 0 1 2 222
Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital 0 0 0 96 0 1 3 197
Heterogeneous Layoff Effects of the US Short-Time Compensation Program 0 0 0 14 0 0 3 70
How Asymmetrically Increasing Joint Strike Costs Need Not Lead to Fewer Strikes 0 0 0 22 1 1 1 43
How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets: The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida 0 2 2 291 0 3 4 1,119
How Do Hurricanes Impact Achievement in School? A Caribbean Perspective 0 0 0 33 1 2 3 94
How Hurricanes Affect Employment and Wages in Local Labor Markets 0 1 1 165 1 3 12 525
How Opportunity Costs Decrease the Probability of War in an Incomplete Information Game 0 0 1 96 1 1 6 619
How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations 0 0 0 156 0 0 1 611
How do hurricanes impact scholastic achievement? A Caribbean perspective 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 43
How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed 2 2 5 815 3 7 27 3,576
How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed 1 1 1 8 2 2 5 40
Hurricane Watch: Battening Down the Effects of the Storm on Local Crop Production 0 0 0 13 0 2 3 86
If Looks Could Heal: Child Health and Paternal Investment 0 0 0 30 0 0 2 93
Lifetime Work Expectations and Estimates of Sex Discrimination 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 29
Male-Female Wage Differentials in Taiwan: A Human Capital Approach 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 13
Measuring Ignorance in the Market: A New Method with an Application to Physician Services 0 0 0 56 0 1 3 273
Medical Interventions among Pregnant Women in Fee-for-Service and Managed Care Insurance: A Propensity Score Analysis 0 0 0 47 0 1 3 452
Micro Foundations of Earnings Differences 0 0 2 36 1 1 5 89
Mincer s Overtaking Point on the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 30
Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution 0 0 0 270 1 1 2 840
The Econometrics of Antidotal Variables 0 0 0 15 2 2 4 18
The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 43
The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis 0 0 0 99 1 1 1 417
The Effects of Price Changes on Alcohol Consumption in Alcohol-Experienced Rats 0 0 0 181 0 0 0 2,162
The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries: A Human Capital Approach 0 1 2 76 0 3 14 140
The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries: A Human Capital Approach 0 1 2 129 1 4 13 368
The Gender Pay Gap across Countries: A Human Capital Approach 0 0 0 385 0 1 4 1,286
The Impact of Paid Family Leave on the Timing of Infant Vaccinations 0 0 1 20 0 1 3 44
The Long-Term Health Impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War 1 2 4 80 4 9 18 123
Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute 1 2 4 221 1 2 10 741
Unanticipated Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program 0 2 3 64 0 2 11 133
What Can We Learn About the Decline in U.S. Union Membership from International Data? 0 0 2 211 0 0 4 830
Total Working Papers 6 17 43 5,493 23 62 238 21,553
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A Two-tiered Earnings Frontier Estimation of Employer and Employee Information in the Labor Market 0 0 2 139 2 3 8 387
A new approach for measuring wage ignorance in the labor market 0 0 1 182 1 1 6 314
An Exchange: The Theory of Human Capital and the Earnings of Women: Women's Earnings Reexamined 1 5 6 122 3 7 13 323
Book Review: Historical Studies: Human Capital in the United States from 1975 to 2000: Patterns of Growth and Utilization 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2
COVID-19 vaccine and risk-taking 0 0 3 3 1 1 7 7
Conflict and Interdependence 0 0 2 8 0 0 2 30
Conflict and Trade 0 3 9 73 0 5 18 225
Conflict and Trade: An Economics Approach to Political International Interactions 1 1 2 217 1 3 7 590
Conflict and trade: the relationship between geographic distance and international interactions 0 0 0 66 0 0 0 201
Current Research and Future Directions in Peace Economics: Trade Gone Awry 0 0 0 51 1 1 2 147
Differences in Expected Post-school Investments as a Determinant of Market Wage Differentials 0 0 0 72 0 0 3 258
Discerning Discrimination: Does Interviewing Firms Make a Difference? 0 0 0 100 0 0 1 259
Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work?: A Nonparametric Assessment 0 0 0 54 1 2 7 291
Do school budgets matter? The effect of budget referenda on student dropout rates 0 0 2 12 1 1 3 28
Does conflict disrupt growth? Evidence of the relationship between political instability and national economic performance 1 1 2 34 2 3 8 153
Earnings Over the Life Cycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications 0 1 4 70 1 2 12 205
Earnings over the Life Cycle: What Do Human Capital Models Explain? 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 675
Economics 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Educational Production Functions 1 1 3 14 1 1 4 37
Employee labor market information: comparing direct world of work measures of workers' knowledge to stochastic frontier estimates 0 0 0 119 0 0 1 264
Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap 0 0 1 26 1 1 7 93
Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap 0 2 4 24 1 11 16 119
Estimating labor force joiners and leavers using a heterogeneity augmented two-tier stochastic frontier 0 0 0 8 0 1 3 51
Family Investment in Human Capital: Earnings of Women 1 6 28 1,751 4 15 88 4,721
Geographic Proximity, Trade, and International Conflict/Cooperation 0 0 0 12 1 2 2 59
Heterogeneity in schooling rates of return 0 1 2 38 0 3 5 159
Heterogeneity in the Labor Market: Ability and Information Acquisition* 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 105
Heterogeneous Layoff Effects of the US Short‐Time Compensation Program 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 16
How Asymmetrically Increasing Joint Strike Costs Need Not Lead to Fewer Strikes 0 0 0 24 1 1 1 137
How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets: The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida 0 0 2 172 0 0 10 519
How Hurricanes Affect Wages and Employment in Local Labor Markets 0 1 3 213 0 2 10 456
How Opportunity Costs Decrease the Probability of War in an Incomplete Information Game 0 1 5 35 0 1 8 166
How do hurricanes impact scholastic achievement? A Caribbean perspective 0 0 2 14 0 1 4 83
How trade affects international interactions 0 0 0 47 1 1 1 178
Hurricane watch: Battening down the effects of the storm on local crop production 0 0 1 8 0 2 4 75
If looks could heal: Child health and paternal investment 0 0 1 13 0 0 3 48
International Relations and Politics 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Labor Economics Mincer-Style: A Personal Reflection 0 0 0 56 0 0 0 208
Liberalism and Interdependence: Extending the Trade-Conflict Model 0 0 0 13 1 1 3 86
Male-Female Wage Differentials in Taiwan: A Human Capital Approach 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 196
Medicaid Coverage and Medical Interventions During Pregnancy 0 0 0 64 0 0 0 839
Medical interventions among pregnant women in fee-for-service and managed care insurance: a propensity score analysis 1 1 1 16 1 1 1 152
Micro- and Macroeconomic Implications of Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital 1 1 3 184 2 3 7 541
Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Life Cycle Earnings Distribution 0 0 0 55 0 2 8 320
Occupation Segregation: A Defense of Human Capital Predictions 0 0 3 36 0 0 4 96
Occupational Segregation: Reply to England 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 44
Occupational Self-Selection: A Human Capital Approach to Sex Differences in Occupational Structure 7 13 47 1,659 12 28 110 4,291
Opportunity Costs and the Probability of War in an Incomplete Information Game (With Comments by Lloyd Jeff Dumas) 0 0 0 16 0 1 5 112
Panel Estimates of Male-Female Earnings Functions 0 0 5 110 0 0 8 280
Panel Estimates of Union Effects on Wages and Wage Growth 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 90
Panel Estimates of a Two-Tiered Earnings Frontier 0 0 0 147 0 1 4 377
Panel estimates of the gender earnings gap: Individual-specific intercept and individual-specific slope models 0 3 5 360 0 3 7 674
Perceptions of female faculty treatment in higher education: which institutions treat women more fairly? 0 1 1 30 0 2 2 162
Potential Biases in Measuring Male-Female Discrimination 0 0 0 4 2 2 2 17
Residual Differences by Sex: Perspectives on the Gender Gap in Earnings 0 2 14 266 1 4 20 766
Sex Differences in College Major 0 0 0 26 2 5 20 1,058
THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ON INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT 1 1 2 197 3 6 10 558
The Rate of Return to Schooling and the Business Cycle 0 1 1 24 0 1 5 75
The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War 0 0 4 8 0 4 22 57
Trade-Based Interactions: an Interdisciplinary Perspective 0 0 0 6 0 1 5 34
Trends in the Male‐Female Wage Gap: The 1980s Compared with the 1970s 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 4
UNANTICIPATED EFFECTS OF CALIFORNIA'S PAID FAMILY LEAVE PROGRAM 0 0 2 16 0 1 4 85
Union effects on wages and wage growth 0 0 0 30 0 0 0 95
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History, by Douglas C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast 0 1 2 23 1 2 5 110
Why Democracies Cooperate More and Fight Less: The Relationship between International Trade and Cooperation 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 423
Why the Gender Gap in Wages Narrowed in the 1980s 0 2 17 426 0 3 28 1,325
Total Journal Articles 15 49 192 7,547 52 148 556 24,458


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The Economics of Earnings 0 0 0 0 7 10 52 540
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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy☆Part of this paper was written while Solomon W. Polachek was a visiting scholar at the NBER in Cambridge, MA. We thank Vikesh Amin, Talia Bar, Erling Barth, Fran Blau, Richard Burkhauser, Henry Farber, Dan Feenberg, Richard Freeman, Claudia Goldin, David Hacker, Larry Kahn, Subal Kumbhakar, Shelly Lundberg, Haim Ofek, Thomas Rawski, Susan Wolcott, Dennis Yang, Xi Yang, seminar participants at Cornell University, IZA, Kasetsart University (Thailand), Rutgers University, SUNY-Albany, and SUNY-Buffalo, as well as Kostas Tatsiramos and two anonymous referees for valuable comments and suggestions 0 0 1 5 0 0 2 79
Family Investments in Human Capital: Earnings of Women 0 0 4 642 2 9 19 2,096
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN REASONS FOR JOB MOBILITY INTENTIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Innovations in forecasting the future that one can learn from: predicting the future in science, economics, and politics 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 22
Labor Economics Mincer-Style: A Personal Reflection 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Natural disasters and migration 0 1 7 105 1 3 16 239
Proving Mincer Right: Mincer’s Overtaking Point and the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5
The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
The Effects of Price Changes on Alcohol Consumption in Alcohol-Experienced Rats 0 0 0 16 1 1 2 98
Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute 1 1 4 147 1 1 10 811
Total Chapters 1 2 16 921 5 14 51 3,354


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