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A test of adverse selection in the market for experienced workers
(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2016)We show that in labor market models with adverse selection, otherwise observationally equivalent workers will experience less wage growth following a period in which they change jobs than following a period in which they ... -
Ben-Porath meets Lazear: lifetime skill investment and occupation choice with multiple skills
(2017-04)We develop a fairly general and tractable model of investment when workers can invest in multiple skills and different jobs put different weights on those skills. In addition to expected findings such as that younger workers ... -
World-hating: apocalypse and trauma in We Need to Talk about Kevin
(MDPI AG, 2017-11-13)Lynne Ramsay’s 2011 film We Need to Talk about Kevin alternates between two narrative times, one occurring before its protagonist Eva’s son commits a terrible crime, and one after. The film invites us to read the crime as ... -
Educational homogamy and assortative mating have not increased
(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2016)Some economists have argued that assortative mating between men and women has increased over the last several decades, thereby contributing to increased family income inequality. Sociologists have argued that educational ... -
Probability of CME impact on exoplanets orbiting M dwarfs and solar-like stars
(IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2016-08-01)Solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) produce adverse space weather effects at Earth. Planets in the close habitable zone of magnetically active M dwarfs may experience more extreme space weather than at Earth, including ... -
Clear as black and white: the effects of ambiguous rhetoric depend on candidate race
(Blackwell Publishing Inc., 2018)Campaign advisors and political scientists have long acknowledged the benefits of ambiguous position taking. We argue, however, that these benefits do not extend to black candidates facing nonblack voters. When a white ... -
Generic machine learning inference on heterogenous treatment effects in randomized experiments
(2018-06)We propose strategies to estimate and make inference on key features of heterogeneous effects in randomized experiments. These key features include best linear predictors of the effects using machine learning proxies, ... -
The impact of integrated infant and young child feeding and micronutrient powder intervention on feeding practices and anemia in children aged 6-23 months in Madagascar
(MDPI AG, 2017-06-01)This study assesses the impact of an integrated infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and micronutrient powder (MNP) intervention on children's risk of anemia and IYCF practices in Madagascar. Quantitative baseline and ... -
Magnitude and determinants of inadequate third-trimester weight gain in rural Bangladesh
(PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2018-04-26)OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to estimate the magnitude and determinants of inadequate weight gain in the third-trimester among rural women in Matlab, Bangladesh. METHODS: The study analyzed data on weight ... -
Bounds for the covariance of functions of infinite variance stable random variables with applications to central limit theorems and wavelet-based estimation
(INT STATISTICAL INST, 2007-11-01)We establish bounds for the covariance of a large class of functions of infinite variance stable random variables, including unbounded functions such as the power function and the logarithm. These bounds involve measures ...
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