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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy 0 0 1 78 2 6 13 169
A New Strategy to Identify Causal Relationships: Estimating a Binding Average Treatment Effect 0 0 0 32 0 4 5 44
COVID-19 Vaccine and Risk-Taking 1 1 2 5 3 6 12 24
Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work? A Nonparametric Assessment 0 0 0 368 1 10 16 1,650
Do School Budgets Matter? The Effect of Budget Referenda on Student Performance 0 0 1 86 0 5 9 189
Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance 0 0 0 138 0 6 11 496
Earnings Over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications 2 5 8 866 7 39 61 2,898
Estimating Labor Force Joiners and Leavers Using a Heterogeneity Augmented Two-Tier Stochastic Frontier 0 0 0 11 1 4 7 68
Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation 0 0 0 182 3 10 16 796
Heterogeneity in Schooling Rates of Return 0 0 0 97 0 9 14 236
Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital 0 0 0 96 0 5 9 206
Heterogeneous Layoff Effects of the US Short-Time Compensation Program 0 0 0 14 2 3 8 78
Homo-Silicus: Not (Yet) a Good Imitator of Homo Sapiens or Homo Economicus 0 1 2 9 4 18 28 39
How Asymmetrically Increasing Joint Strike Costs Need Not Lead to Fewer Strikes 0 0 0 22 2 4 8 51
How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets: The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida 1 1 1 292 5 11 19 1,138
How Do Hurricanes Impact Achievement in School? A Caribbean Perspective 0 0 0 33 2 3 9 103
How Hurricanes Affect Employment and Wages in Local Labor Markets 0 0 2 167 0 8 18 543
How Opportunity Costs Decrease the Probability of War in an Incomplete Information Game 0 0 0 96 1 8 16 635
How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations 0 0 0 156 0 7 9 620
How do hurricanes impact scholastic achievement? A Caribbean perspective 0 0 0 0 2 4 5 48
How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed 0 0 1 816 0 9 16 3,592
How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed 0 0 0 8 0 7 11 51
Hurricane Watch: Battening Down the Effects of the Storm on Local Crop Production 0 0 0 13 0 5 9 95
If Looks Could Heal: Child Health and Paternal Investment 0 0 0 30 0 4 6 99
Lifetime Work Expectations and Estimates of Sex Discrimination 0 0 0 5 0 2 3 32
Male-Female Wage Differentials in Taiwan: A Human Capital Approach 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 17
Measuring Ignorance in the Market: A New Method with an Application to Physician Services 0 0 0 56 2 7 11 284
Medical Interventions among Pregnant Women in Fee-for-Service and Managed Care Insurance: A Propensity Score Analysis 0 0 0 47 0 4 5 457
Micro Foundations of Earnings Differences 0 1 4 40 3 11 20 109
Mincer s Overtaking Point on the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution 0 0 0 3 0 7 13 43
Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution 0 0 0 270 2 9 13 853
The Econometrics of Antidotal Variables 0 0 0 15 0 2 10 28
The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis 0 0 0 99 1 2 6 423
The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis 0 0 0 3 0 8 11 54
The Effects of Price Changes on Alcohol Consumption in Alcohol-Experienced Rats 0 0 0 181 1 4 5 2,167
The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries: A Human Capital Approach 0 0 0 76 1 10 18 158
The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries: A Human Capital Approach 0 0 7 136 1 14 26 394
The Gender Pay Gap across Countries: A Human Capital Approach 0 0 1 386 0 6 14 1,300
The Impact of Paid Family Leave on the Timing of Infant Vaccinations 0 0 1 21 0 2 4 48
The Long-Term Health Impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War 1 1 3 83 2 5 22 145
Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute 0 0 0 221 0 5 7 748
Unanticipated Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program 0 0 1 65 0 2 16 149
What Can We Learn About the Decline in U.S. Union Membership from International Data? 0 0 1 212 0 4 11 841
Total Working Papers 5 10 36 5,536 48 301 554 22,118
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A Two-tiered Earnings Frontier Estimation of Employer and Employee Information in the Labor Market 0 0 1 140 0 1 6 393
A new approach for measuring wage ignorance in the labor market 1 1 3 185 2 5 9 323
An Exchange: The Theory of Human Capital and the Earnings of Women: Women's Earnings Reexamined 0 0 2 124 0 7 13 336
Book Review: Historical Studies: Human Capital in the United States from 1975 to 2000: Patterns of Growth and Utilization 0 0 0 0 1 5 6 8
COVID-19 vaccine and risk-taking 0 0 0 3 1 10 11 18
Conflict and Interdependence 0 0 0 8 2 4 4 34
Conflict and Trade 1 3 7 80 4 15 26 251
Conflict and Trade: An Economics Approach to Political International Interactions 0 1 2 219 3 11 18 608
Conflict and trade: the relationship between geographic distance and international interactions 0 0 0 66 0 12 17 218
Current Research and Future Directions in Peace Economics: Trade Gone Awry 0 0 0 51 0 3 6 153
Differences in Expected Post-school Investments as a Determinant of Market Wage Differentials 0 1 2 74 0 8 11 269
Discerning Discrimination: Does Interviewing Firms Make a Difference? 0 0 0 100 1 3 3 262
Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work?: A Nonparametric Assessment 0 0 0 54 2 10 14 305
Do school budgets matter? The effect of budget referenda on student dropout rates 0 0 1 13 1 3 6 34
Does conflict disrupt growth? Evidence of the relationship between political instability and national economic performance 0 0 2 36 1 4 9 162
Earnings Over the Life Cycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications 1 2 4 74 5 16 23 228
Earnings over the Life Cycle: What Do Human Capital Models Explain? 0 0 0 0 1 7 11 686
Economics 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Educational Production Functions 0 0 1 15 1 7 12 49
Employee labor market information: comparing direct world of work measures of workers' knowledge to stochastic frontier estimates 0 0 0 119 2 4 7 271
Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap 0 0 0 26 0 13 15 108
Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap 0 0 1 25 3 10 14 133
Estimating labor force joiners and leavers using a heterogeneity augmented two-tier stochastic frontier 0 0 1 9 1 2 8 59
Family Investment in Human Capital: Earnings of Women 0 2 13 1,764 2 25 63 4,784
Geographic Proximity, Trade, and International Conflict/Cooperation 0 0 0 12 0 5 6 65
Heterogeneity in schooling rates of return 0 0 2 40 0 4 13 172
Heterogeneity in the Labor Market: Ability and Information Acquisition* 0 0 0 8 1 6 12 117
Heterogeneous Layoff Effects of the US Short‐Time Compensation Program 0 1 1 5 2 13 16 32
How Asymmetrically Increasing Joint Strike Costs Need Not Lead to Fewer Strikes 0 0 0 24 1 4 9 146
How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets: The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida 0 0 4 176 3 14 28 547
How Hurricanes Affect Wages and Employment in Local Labor Markets 0 0 1 214 3 8 28 484
How Opportunity Costs Decrease the Probability of War in an Incomplete Information Game 0 0 1 36 1 5 8 174
How do hurricanes impact scholastic achievement? A Caribbean perspective 0 0 0 14 1 6 8 91
How trade affects international interactions 0 0 0 47 0 2 7 185
Hurricane watch: Battening down the effects of the storm on local crop production 0 0 0 8 1 5 8 83
If looks could heal: Child health and paternal investment 0 0 0 13 0 3 8 56
International Relations and Politics 0 0 0 1 0 2 5 6
Labor Economics Mincer-Style: A Personal Reflection 0 0 0 56 0 3 5 213
Liberalism and Interdependence: Extending the Trade-Conflict Model 1 1 3 16 1 3 10 96
Male-Female Wage Differentials in Taiwan: A Human Capital Approach 0 0 0 3 0 2 4 200
Medicaid Coverage and Medical Interventions During Pregnancy 0 0 0 64 1 6 10 849
Medical interventions among pregnant women in fee-for-service and managed care insurance: a propensity score analysis 0 0 0 16 2 5 7 159
Micro- and Macroeconomic Implications of Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital 0 0 2 186 0 3 12 553
Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Life Cycle Earnings Distribution 0 0 0 55 0 7 9 329
Occupation Segregation: A Defense of Human Capital Predictions 1 1 1 37 3 7 10 106
Occupational Segregation: Reply to England 0 0 1 15 1 4 7 51
Occupational Self-Selection: A Human Capital Approach to Sex Differences in Occupational Structure 2 6 29 1,688 3 21 82 4,373
Opportunity Costs and the Probability of War in an Incomplete Information Game (With Comments by Lloyd Jeff Dumas) 0 0 1 17 0 9 12 124
Panel Estimates of Male-Female Earnings Functions 1 1 4 114 1 4 11 291
Panel Estimates of Union Effects on Wages and Wage Growth 0 0 0 24 4 7 10 100
Panel Estimates of a Two-Tiered Earnings Frontier 0 0 0 147 0 5 7 384
Panel estimates of the gender earnings gap: Individual-specific intercept and individual-specific slope models 0 1 2 362 0 3 7 681
Perceptions of female faculty treatment in higher education: which institutions treat women more fairly? 0 0 0 30 1 7 10 172
Potential Biases in Measuring Male-Female Discrimination 0 0 0 4 0 8 9 26
Residual Differences by Sex: Perspectives on the Gender Gap in Earnings 1 1 3 269 7 16 28 794
Sex Differences in College Major 0 1 1 27 1 8 14 1,072
THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ON INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT 0 0 2 199 1 11 27 585
The Rate of Return to Schooling and the Business Cycle 0 0 0 24 1 5 7 82
The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War 0 3 6 14 1 18 51 108
Trade-Based Interactions: an Interdisciplinary Perspective 0 0 0 6 1 5 5 39
Trends in the Male‐Female Wage Gap: The 1980s Compared with the 1970s 0 0 0 0 1 5 9 13
UNANTICIPATED EFFECTS OF CALIFORNIA'S PAID FAMILY LEAVE PROGRAM 0 1 1 17 0 4 8 93
Union effects on wages and wage growth 0 0 0 30 4 4 5 100
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History, by Douglas C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast 0 0 1 24 1 7 8 118
Why Democracies Cooperate More and Fight Less: The Relationship between International Trade and Cooperation 0 0 0 0 0 7 8 431
Why the Gender Gap in Wages Narrowed in the 1980s 0 0 1 427 3 13 21 1,346
Total Journal Articles 9 27 107 7,654 84 469 881 25,339


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The Economics of Earnings 0 0 0 0 0 8 33 573
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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 0 5 0 6 10 89
Family Investments in Human Capital: Earnings of Women 1 1 3 645 4 16 33 2,129
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN REASONS FOR JOB MOBILITY INTENTIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION 0 0 1 1 1 3 4 5
Innovations in forecasting the future that one can learn from: predicting the future in science, economics, and politics 0 0 0 6 0 4 4 26
Labor Economics Mincer-Style: A Personal Reflection 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 9
Natural disasters and migration 0 0 4 109 0 8 19 258
Proving Mincer Right: Mincer’s Overtaking Point and the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution 0 0 0 0 0 6 13 18
The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis 0 0 0 0 0 4 9 9
The Effects of Price Changes on Alcohol Consumption in Alcohol-Experienced Rats 0 0 0 16 0 1 2 100
Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute 0 0 0 147 1 7 15 826
Total Chapters 1 1 8 929 6 59 115 3,469


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