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Working Papers

2018

1. Dinner Table Human Capital and Entrepreneurship
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (17)
   Also in Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business (2017)
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2018) View citations (17)
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018) View citations (17)
2. The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers
   Natural Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations (65)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2018) View citations (67)
   Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business (2018) View citations (67)
   See also Journal Article The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers, The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd (2021) View citations (51) (2021)

2015

3. Exploration for Human Capital: Evidence from the MBA Labor Market
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
   Also in Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business (2014)
   See also Journal Article Exploration for Human Capital: Evidence from the MBA Labor Market, Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press (2016) View citations (11) (2016)

2012

4. Exploration for human capital: Theory and evidence from the MBA labor market
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)
5. Firm/Employee Matching: An Industry Study of American Lawyers
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (8)
6. Welcome to the Club: The Returns to an Elite Degree for American Lawyers
   Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business View citations (4)

2010

7. Personnel Economics: Hiring and Incentives
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (20)
   See also Chapter Personnel Economics: Hiring and Incentives, Handbook of Labor Economics, Elsevier (2011) View citations (104) (2011)

2008

8. Managerial Incentives and Value Creation: Evidence from Private Equity
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (19)
9. Who Benefits from Tax-Advantaged Employee Benefits?: Evidence from University Parking
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2007

10. Ability and Employer Learning: Evidence from the Economist Labor Market
    Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business View citations (1)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) View citations (1)
    See also Chapter Ability and Employer Learning: Evidence from the Economist Labor Market, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2008) View citations (11) (2008)
    Journal Article Ability and employer learning: Evidence from the economist labor market, Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier (2008) View citations (10) (2008)
11. Personnel Economics
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (50)
    See also Chapter Personnel Economics, Introductory Chapters, Princeton University Press (2012) View citations (27) (2012)

2006

12. The Macro-Foundations of Microeconomics: Initial Labor Market Conditions and Long-Term Outcomes for Economists
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (36)
13. The Making of an Investment Banker: Macroeconomic Shocks, Career Choice, and Lifetime Income
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)

2005

14. Accounting, Governance, and Broad-Based Stock Option Grants
    Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business View citations (1)
15. Co-worker Complementarity and the Stability of Top Management Teams
    Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business View citations (8)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2004) View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Coworker Complementarity and the Stability of Top-Management Teams, The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Oxford University Press (2006) View citations (27) (2006)
16. Mandated Disclosure, Stock Returns, and the 1964 Securities Acts Amendments
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
    Also in Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business (2005) View citations (2)
    American Law & Economics Association Annual Meetings, American Law & Economics Association
    See also Journal Article Mandated Disclosure, Stock Returns, and the 1964 Securities Acts Amendments, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College (2006) View citations (114) (2006)
17. Salary or Benefits?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (35)
    Also in Santa Cruz Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, UC Santa Cruz (2004) View citations (5)
    See also Chapter Salary or benefits?, Research in Labor Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited (2008) View citations (22) (2008)

2004

18. Compensating Employees Below the Executive Ranks: A Comparison of Options, Restricted Stock, and Cash
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
19. Why Do Some Firms Give Stock Options To All Employees?: An Empirical Examination of Alternative Theories
    Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business View citations (19)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2004) View citations (19)
    See also Journal Article Why do some firms give stock options to all employees?: An empirical examination of alternative theories, Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier (2005) View citations (245) (2005)

2003

20. Internal and External Labor Markets: A Personnel Economics Approach
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article Internal and external labor markets: a personnel economics approach, Labour Economics, Elsevier (2004) View citations (68) (2004)

2001

21. Why Do Firms Use Incentives That Have No Incentive Effects?
    Research Papers, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business View citations (3)
    Also in Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers, Econometric Society (2000) View citations (12)

1995

22. The Effect of Sales Incentives on Business Seasonality
    Working Papers, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section. View citations (2)

Undated

23. Layoffs and Litigation
    IPR working papers, Institute for Policy Resarch at Northwestern University View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article Layoffs and Litigation, RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation (2000) View citations (43) (2000)

Journal Articles

2021

1. The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers
   (Measuring the Gig Economy: Current Knowledge and Open Issues)
   The Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88, (5), 2210-2238 View citations (51)
   See also Working Paper The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence from over a Million Rideshare Drivers, Natural Field Experiments (2018) View citations (65) (2018)

2020

2. The gig economy
   IZA World of Labor, 2020, 471 View citations (10)

2019

3. Older Workers and the Gig Economy
   AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2019, 109, 372-76 View citations (3)
4. The Returns to Elite Degrees: The Case of American Lawyers
   ILR Review, 2019, 72, (2), 446-479 View citations (6)

2016

5. Exploration for Human Capital: Evidence from the MBA Labor Market
   Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34, (S2), S255 - S286 View citations (11)
   See also Working Paper Exploration for Human Capital: Evidence from the MBA Labor Market, NBER Working Papers (2015) View citations (2) (2015)
6. Firm/Employee Matching
   ILR Review, 2016, 69, (2), 378-404 View citations (1)

2008

7. Ability and employer learning: Evidence from the economist labor market
   Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2008, 22, (2), 268-289 View citations (10)
   See also Working Paper Ability and Employer Learning: Evidence from the Economist Labor Market, Research Papers (2007) View citations (1) (2007)
   Chapter Ability and Employer Learning: Evidence from the Economist Labor Market, NBER Chapters, 2008, 268-289 (2008) View citations (11) (2008)
8. The Making of an Investment Banker: Stock Market Shocks, Career Choice, and Lifetime Income
   Journal of Finance, 2008, 63, (6), 2601-2628 View citations (128)

2007

9. Is There An Insider Advantage in Getting Tenure?
   American Economic Review, 2007, 97, (2), 501-505 View citations (13)

2006

10. Costs of broad-based stock option plans
    Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2006, 15, (4), 511-534 View citations (10)
11. Coworker Complementarity and the Stability of Top-Management Teams
    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2006, 22, (1), 184-212 View citations (27)
    See also Working Paper Co-worker Complementarity and the Stability of Top Management Teams, Research Papers (2005) View citations (8) (2005)
12. Initial Labor Market Conditions and Long-Term Outcomes for Economists
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2006, 20, (3), 143-160 View citations (239)
13. Mandated Disclosure, Stock Returns, and the 1964 Securities Acts Amendments
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006, 121, (2), 399-460 View citations (114)
    See also Working Paper Mandated Disclosure, Stock Returns, and the 1964 Securities Acts Amendments, NBER Working Papers (2005) View citations (3) (2005)

2005

14. Why do some firms give stock options to all employees?: An empirical examination of alternative theories
    Journal of Financial Economics, 2005, 76, (1), 99-133 View citations (245)
    See also Working Paper Why Do Some Firms Give Stock Options To All Employees?: An Empirical Examination of Alternative Theories, Research Papers (2004) View citations (19) (2004)

2004

15. Internal and external labor markets: a personnel economics approach
    Labour Economics, 2004, 11, (5), 527-554 View citations (68)
    See also Working Paper Internal and External Labor Markets: A Personnel Economics Approach, NBER Working Papers (2003) View citations (4) (2003)
16. Recall bias among displaced workers
    Economics Letters, 2004, 82, (3), 397-402 View citations (15)
17. The Structure of Wages and Internal Mobility
    American Economic Review, 2004, 94, (2), 212-216 View citations (19)

2002

18. Litigation Costs and Returns to Experience
    American Economic Review, 2002, 92, (3), 683-705 View citations (24)
19. Sorting, Quotas, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991: Who Hires When It's Hard to Fire?
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2002, 45, (1), 41-68 View citations (3)

2001

20. Book Review: Human Resources, Management, and Personnel: Internal Labour Markets in Japan
    ILR Review, 2001, 54, (4), 895-896

2000

21. A Theory of Sales Quotas with Limited Liability and Rent Sharing
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2000, 18, (3), 405-26 View citations (78)
22. Are There Sectoral Anomalies Too? The Pitfalls of Unreported Multiple Hypothesis Testing and a Simple Solution
    Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2000, 15, (1), 37-55 View citations (5)
23. Layoffs and Litigation
    RAND Journal of Economics, 2000, 31, (2), 345-358 View citations (43)
    See also Working Paper Layoffs and Litigation, IPR working papers View citations (5)

1999

24. The timeliness of performance information in determining executive compensation
    Journal of Corporate Finance, 1999, 5, (4), 303-321 View citations (4)

1998

25. Fiscal Year Ends and Nonlinear Incentive Contracts: The Effect on Business Seasonality
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1998, 113, (1), 149-185 View citations (188)

Chapters

2012

1. Personnel Economics
   A chapter in The Handbook of Organizational Economics, 2012 View citations (27)
   See also Working Paper Personnel Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007) View citations (50) (2007)

2011

2. Personnel Economics: Hiring and Incentives
   Elsevier View citations (104)
   See also Working Paper Personnel Economics: Hiring and Incentives, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2010) View citations (20) (2010)

2009

3. Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in Sweden, 1970-90
   A chapter in The Structure of Wages: An International Comparison, 2009, pp 419-447

2008

4. Ability and Employer Learning: Evidence from the Economist Labor Market
   A chapter in Organizational Innovation and Firm Performance, 2008, pp 268-289 View citations (11)
   See also Working Paper Ability and Employer Learning: Evidence from the Economist Labor Market, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business (2007) View citations (1) (2007)
   Journal Article Ability and employer learning: Evidence from the economist labor market, Elsevier (2008) View citations (10) (2008)
5. Salary or benefits?
   A chapter in Work, Earnings and Other Aspects of the Employment Relation, 2008, pp 429-467 View citations (22)
   See also Working Paper Salary or Benefits?, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2005) View citations (35) (2005)