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Working Papers

2025

1. What Do Managers Do? An Economist's Perspective
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2023

2. Learning to Discriminate on the Job
   Working Paper Series, Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research

2018

3. Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market
   Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis View citations (6)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2015) View citations (4)
   Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group (2018)
   See also Journal Article Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market, Management Science, INFORMS (2020) View citations (21) (2020)
4. Promotions and the Peter Principle
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (10)
   See also Journal Article Promotions and the Peter Principle, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College (2019) View citations (35) (2019)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Discrimination in Hiring: Evidence from Retail Sales
   The Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91, (4), 1956-1987 View citations (2)

2020

2. Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market
   Management Science, 2020, 66, (5), 1802-1825 View citations (21)
   See also Working Paper Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market, Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers (2018) View citations (6) (2018)
3. Strength from Within: Internal Mobility and the Retention of High Performers
   Organization Science, 2020, 31, (6), 1475-1496 View citations (4)

2019

4. Promotions and the Peter Principle
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019, 134, (4), 2085-2134 View citations (35)
   See also Working Paper Promotions and the Peter Principle, NBER Working Papers (2018) View citations (10) (2018)

2018

5. Are Bonus Pools Driven by Their Incentive Effects? Evidence from Fluctuations in Gainsharing Incentives
   ILR Review, 2018, 71, (3), 567-599 View citations (1)

2015

6. A Theory of Dual Job Search and Sex-Based Occupational Clustering
   Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2015, 54, (3), 367-400 View citations (8)
7. Do Agents Game Their Agents' Behavior? Evidence from Sales Managers
   Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33, (4), 863 - 890 View citations (9)

2014

8. Rethinking the Two-Body Problem: The Segregation of Women Into Geographically Dispersed Occupations
   Demography, 2014, 51, (5), 1619-1639 View citations (35)

2013

9. Firm-sponsored general education and mobility frictions: Evidence from hospital sponsorship of nursing schools and faculty
   Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32, (1), 149-159 View citations (14)

2010

10. The Long Haul Effects of Interest Arbitration: The Case of New York State's Taylor Law
    ILR Review, 2010, 63, (4), 565-584 View citations (8)