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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy 0 0 1 78 1 9 22 178
A New Strategy to Identify Causal Relationships: Estimating a Binding Average Treatment Effect 0 0 0 32 0 5 10 49
COVID-19 Vaccine and Risk-Taking 0 0 2 5 0 1 12 25
Causal Inference Using Antidotal Variables 9 9 9 9 8 9 16 16
Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work? A Nonparametric Assessment 0 0 0 368 1 7 22 1,657
Do School Budgets Matter? The Effect of Budget Referenda on Student Performance 0 0 0 86 0 2 9 191
Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance 0 0 0 138 0 2 12 498
Earnings Over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications 1 1 9 867 5 17 72 2,915
Estimating Labor Force Joiners and Leavers Using a Heterogeneity Augmented Two-Tier Stochastic Frontier 0 0 0 11 0 1 8 69
Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation 0 0 0 182 0 4 20 800
Heterogeneity in Schooling Rates of Return 0 0 0 97 1 3 16 239
Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital 0 0 0 96 0 2 9 208
Heterogeneous Layoff Effects of the US Short-Time Compensation Program 0 0 0 14 0 1 8 79
Homo-Silicus: Not (Yet) a Good Imitator of Homo Sapiens or Homo Economicus 0 0 2 9 2 7 32 46
How Asymmetrically Increasing Joint Strike Costs Need Not Lead to Fewer Strikes 0 0 0 22 1 2 9 53
How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets: The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida 0 0 1 292 2 4 20 1,142
How Do Hurricanes Impact Achievement in School? A Caribbean Perspective 0 0 0 33 1 2 11 105
How Hurricanes Affect Employment and Wages in Local Labor Markets 0 0 1 167 4 9 25 552
How Opportunity Costs Decrease the Probability of War in an Incomplete Information Game 0 0 0 96 1 4 19 639
How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations 0 0 0 156 0 3 12 623
How do hurricanes impact scholastic achievement? A Caribbean perspective 0 0 0 0 1 5 10 53
How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed 0 0 0 8 0 4 13 55
How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed 0 1 2 817 0 7 21 3,599
Hurricane Watch: Battening Down the Effects of the Storm on Local Crop Production 0 0 0 13 1 5 13 100
If Looks Could Heal: Child Health and Paternal Investment 0 0 0 30 0 2 8 101
Lifetime Work Expectations and Estimates of Sex Discrimination 0 0 0 5 0 1 3 33
Male-Female Wage Differentials in Taiwan: A Human Capital Approach 0 0 0 2 0 4 7 21
Measuring Ignorance in the Market: A New Method with an Application to Physician Services 0 0 0 56 0 3 13 287
Medical Interventions among Pregnant Women in Fee-for-Service and Managed Care Insurance: A Propensity Score Analysis 0 0 0 47 0 1 6 458
Micro Foundations of Earnings Differences 0 1 2 41 0 5 21 114
Mincer s Overtaking Point on the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution 0 0 0 3 1 5 17 48
Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution 0 0 0 270 0 2 15 855
Strategic Reasoning and Sensitivity to Stakes in the Dictator and Ultimatum Games: LLMs vs. Human Proposers 22 32 32 32 4 9 9 9
Strategic Reasoning and Sensitivity to Stakes in the Dictator and Ultimatum Games: LLMs vs. Human Proposers 20 20 20 20 11 11 11 11
The Econometrics of Antidotal Variables 0 0 0 15 1 3 11 31
The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis 0 0 0 99 1 5 11 428
The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis 0 0 0 3 0 1 12 55
The Effects of Price Changes on Alcohol Consumption in Alcohol-Experienced Rats 0 0 0 181 1 6 11 2,173
The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries: A Human Capital Approach 0 0 7 136 4 6 31 400
The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries: A Human Capital Approach 0 0 0 76 2 10 27 168
The Gender Pay Gap across Countries: A Human Capital Approach 0 0 1 386 1 4 17 1,304
The Impact of Paid Family Leave on the Timing of Infant Vaccinations 0 0 1 21 0 0 4 48
The Long-Term Health Impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War 0 0 2 83 1 7 24 152
Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute 0 0 0 221 0 2 9 750
Unanticipated Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program 2 3 4 68 2 6 19 155
What Can We Learn About the Decline in U.S. Union Membership from International Data? 0 0 1 212 0 0 11 841
Total Working Papers 54 67 97 5,603 58 208 718 22,333
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A Two-tiered Earnings Frontier Estimation of Employer and Employee Information in the Labor Market 0 0 1 140 2 4 10 397
A new approach for measuring wage ignorance in the labor market 0 0 3 185 0 2 11 325
An Exchange: The Theory of Human Capital and the Earnings of Women: Women's Earnings Reexamined 1 2 4 126 1 5 16 341
Book Review: Historical Studies: Human Capital in the United States from 1975 to 2000: Patterns of Growth and Utilization 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 10
COVID-19 vaccine and risk-taking 0 0 0 3 1 11 22 29
Conflict and Interdependence 0 0 0 8 1 7 11 41
Conflict and Trade 0 1 6 81 2 11 35 262
Conflict and Trade: An Economics Approach to Political International Interactions 0 0 2 219 0 4 20 612
Conflict and trade: the relationship between geographic distance and international interactions 0 0 0 66 0 2 19 220
Current Research and Future Directions in Peace Economics: Trade Gone Awry 0 0 0 51 0 4 10 157
Differences in Expected Post-school Investments as a Determinant of Market Wage Differentials 0 1 2 75 0 4 14 273
Discerning Discrimination: Does Interviewing Firms Make a Difference? 0 0 0 100 0 5 8 267
Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work?: A Nonparametric Assessment 0 0 0 54 0 2 14 307
Do school budgets matter? The effect of budget referenda on student dropout rates 0 1 1 14 2 5 9 39
Does conflict disrupt growth? Evidence of the relationship between political instability and national economic performance 0 0 2 36 0 3 11 165
Earnings Over the Life Cycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications 2 4 8 78 6 19 42 247
Earnings over the Life Cycle: What Do Human Capital Models Explain? 0 0 0 0 0 2 12 688
Economics 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2
Educational Production Functions 0 0 1 15 0 2 14 51
Employee labor market information: comparing direct world of work measures of workers' knowledge to stochastic frontier estimates 0 0 0 119 0 0 7 271
Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap 0 0 0 26 0 7 21 115
Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap 0 0 0 25 0 4 16 137
Estimating labor force joiners and leavers using a heterogeneity augmented two-tier stochastic frontier 0 0 1 9 1 4 12 63
Family Investment in Human Capital: Earnings of Women 1 6 15 1,770 2 20 68 4,804
Geographic Proximity, Trade, and International Conflict/Cooperation 0 0 0 12 0 6 12 71
Heterogeneity in schooling rates of return 0 0 1 40 2 6 16 178
Heterogeneity in the Labor Market: Ability and Information Acquisition* 0 0 0 8 0 2 14 119
Heterogeneous Layoff Effects of the US Short‐Time Compensation Program 0 0 1 5 0 3 19 35
How Asymmetrically Increasing Joint Strike Costs Need Not Lead to Fewer Strikes 0 0 0 24 2 3 11 149
How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets: The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida 0 1 3 177 0 10 30 557
How Hurricanes Affect Wages and Employment in Local Labor Markets 0 0 1 214 1 2 26 486
How Opportunity Costs Decrease the Probability of War in an Incomplete Information Game 0 0 0 36 0 3 10 177
How do hurricanes impact scholastic achievement? A Caribbean perspective 0 0 0 14 0 2 10 93
How trade affects international interactions 0 0 0 47 1 2 7 187
Hurricane watch: Battening down the effects of the storm on local crop production 0 0 0 8 2 5 13 88
If looks could heal: Child health and paternal investment 0 0 0 13 0 0 7 56
International Relations and Politics 0 0 0 1 0 3 8 9
Labor Economics Mincer-Style: A Personal Reflection 0 0 0 56 0 4 9 217
Liberalism and Interdependence: Extending the Trade-Conflict Model 1 2 3 18 1 6 12 102
Male-Female Wage Differentials in Taiwan: A Human Capital Approach 0 0 0 3 0 1 5 201
Medicaid Coverage and Medical Interventions During Pregnancy 0 0 0 64 0 0 10 849
Medical interventions among pregnant women in fee-for-service and managed care insurance: a propensity score analysis 0 0 0 16 2 7 14 166
Micro- and Macroeconomic Implications of Heterogeneity in the Production of Human Capital 0 1 2 187 0 6 16 559
Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Life Cycle Earnings Distribution 0 0 0 55 0 4 13 333
Occupation Segregation: A Defense of Human Capital Predictions 0 1 2 38 0 3 13 109
Occupational Segregation: Reply to England 0 0 0 15 1 3 9 54
Occupational Self-Selection: A Human Capital Approach to Sex Differences in Occupational Structure 1 6 22 1,694 7 26 75 4,399
Opportunity Costs and the Probability of War in an Incomplete Information Game (With Comments by Lloyd Jeff Dumas) 0 0 0 17 1 5 16 129
Panel Estimates of Male-Female Earnings Functions 0 0 3 114 1 3 11 294
Panel Estimates of Union Effects on Wages and Wage Growth 0 0 0 24 0 2 12 102
Panel Estimates of a Two-Tiered Earnings Frontier 0 0 0 147 0 1 8 385
Panel estimates of the gender earnings gap: Individual-specific intercept and individual-specific slope models 0 0 1 362 0 1 7 682
Perceptions of female faculty treatment in higher education: which institutions treat women more fairly? 0 0 0 30 0 1 11 173
Potential Biases in Measuring Male-Female Discrimination 0 0 0 4 0 2 11 28
Residual Differences by Sex: Perspectives on the Gender Gap in Earnings 0 0 1 269 1 4 25 798
Sex Differences in College Major 0 0 1 27 1 4 18 1,076
THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ON INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT 0 0 2 199 1 7 31 592
The Rate of Return to Schooling and the Business Cycle 0 0 0 24 1 4 11 86
The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: Evidence from the Vietnam War 0 0 6 14 1 21 66 129
Trade-Based Interactions: an Interdisciplinary Perspective 0 0 0 6 1 2 7 41
Trends in the Male‐Female Wage Gap: The 1980s Compared with the 1970s 0 0 0 0 1 2 10 15
UNANTICIPATED EFFECTS OF CALIFORNIA'S PAID FAMILY LEAVE PROGRAM 0 1 2 18 0 2 8 95
Union effects on wages and wage growth 0 0 0 30 0 0 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 0 3 11 121
Why Democracies Cooperate More and Fight Less: The Relationship between International Trade and Cooperation 0 0 0 0 1 3 11 434
Why the Gender Gap in Wages Narrowed in the 1980s 0 1 2 428 2 7 27 1,353
Total Journal Articles 6 28 100 7,682 50 311 1,076 25,650


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The Economics of Earnings 0 0 0 0 1 2 28 575
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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 1 1 1 6 2 6 14 95
Family Investments in Human Capital: Earnings of Women 2 2 3 647 7 20 42 2,149
GENDER DIFFERENCES IN REASONS FOR JOB MOBILITY INTENTIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION 0 0 1 1 0 4 8 9
Innovations in forecasting the future that one can learn from: predicting the future in science, economics, and politics 0 0 0 6 1 3 7 29
Labor Economics Mincer-Style: A Personal Reflection 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 10
Natural disasters and migration 0 1 3 110 1 6 20 264
Proving Mincer Right: Mincer’s Overtaking Point and the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution 0 0 0 0 0 1 14 19
The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis 0 0 0 0 1 1 10 10
The Effects of Price Changes on Alcohol Consumption in Alcohol-Experienced Rats 0 0 0 16 1 7 9 107
Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute 0 0 0 147 0 1 14 827
Total Chapters 3 4 8 933 13 50 145 3,519


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