Journal of Labor Economics

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Volume 36, issue S1, 2018

Introduction: Firms and the Distribution of Income: The Roles of Productivity and Luck pp. S1 - S12

Edward Lazear and Kathryn L. Shaw

Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory pp. S13 - S70

David Card, Ana Rute Cardoso, Joerg Heining and Patrick Kline

Augmenting the Human Capital Earnings Equation with Measures of Where People Work pp. S71 - S97

Erling Barth, James Davis and Richard Freeman

Firm Performance and the Volatility of Worker Earnings pp. S99 - S131

Chinhui Juhn, Kristin McCue, Holly Monti and Brooks Pierce

Who Gets Hired? The Importance of Competition among Applicants pp. S133 - S181

Edward Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher T. Stanton

Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States: Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data pp. S183 - S300

John Abowd, Kevin L. McKinney and Nellie L. Zhao

Who Moves Up the Job Ladder? pp. S301 - S336

John Haltiwanger, Henry Hyatt and Erika McEntarfer

Skill Requirements across Firms and Labor Markets: Evidence from Job Postings for Professionals pp. S337 - S369

David Deming and Lisa Kahn

Management Practices, Workforce Selection, and Productivity pp. S371 - S409

Stefan Bender, Nicholas Bloom, David Card, John van Reenen and Stefanie Wolter

Volume 36, issue 4, 2018

Peer Quality and the Academic Benefits to Attending Better Schools pp. 841 - 884

Mark Hoekstra, Pierre Mouganie and Yaojing Wang

Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools pp. 885 - 921

Rosario Ballatore, Margherita Fort and Andrea Ichino

Ability Tracking, School and Parental Effort, and Student Achievement: A Structural Model and Estimation pp. 923 - 979

Chao Fu and Nirav Mehta

Risk and Return Trade-Offs in Lifetime Earnings pp. 981 - 1021

Eleanor Dillon

When Is Social Responsibility Socially Desirable? pp. 1023 - 1072

Jean-Etienne de Bettignies and David Robinson

Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance pp. 1073 - 1125

Pieter Gautier, Paul Muller, Bas van der Klaauw, Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

The Long-Term Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Children’s Education and Employment Outcomes pp. 1127 - 1163

Jacob Bastian and Katherine Michelmore

Volume 36, issue 3, 2018

The Local Economic Impacts of Military Personnel pp. 589 - 621

Ben Zou

When the Shadow Is the Substance: Judge Gender and the Outcomes of Workplace Sex Discrimination Cases pp. 623 - 664

Matthew Knepper

Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply, and Children pp. 665 - 709

Christina Gathmann and Björn Sass

Skills, Job Tasks, and Productivity in Teaching: Evidence from a Randomized Trial of Instruction Practices pp. 711 - 742

Eric S. Taylor

The Effect of Teacher Gender on Students’ Academic and Noncognitive Outcomes pp. 743 - 778

Jie Gong, Yi Lu and Hong Song

The Returns to College Persistence for Marginal Students: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from University Dismissal Policies pp. 779 - 805

Ben Ost, Weixiang Pan and Douglas Webber

Updating Human Capital Decisions: Evidence from SAT Score Shocks and College Applications pp. 807 - 839

Timothy Bond, George Bulman, Xiaoxiao Li and Jonathan Smith

Volume 36, issue 2, 2018

College as Country Club: Do Colleges Cater to Students’ Preferences for Consumption? pp. 309 - 348

Brian Jacob, Brian McCall and Kevin Stange

Health at Birth, Parental Investments, and Academic Outcomes pp. 349 - 394

Prashant Bharadwaj, Juan Pedro Eberhard and Christopher Neilson

Returns to Education Quality for Low-Skilled Students: Evidence from a Discontinuity pp. 395 - 436

Serena Canaan and Pierre Mouganie

Sorting through Affirmative Action: Three Field Experiments in Colombia pp. 437 - 478

Marcela Ibanez and Gerhard Riener

Job Loss and Regional Mobility pp. 479 - 509

Kristiina Huttunen, Jarle Møen and Kjell G Salvanes

More Dispersion, Higher Bonuses? On Differentiation in Subjective Performance Evaluations pp. 511 - 549

Patrick Kampkötter and Dirk Sliwka

Who Migrates and Why? Evidence from Italian Administrative Data pp. 551 - 588

Cristian Bartolucci, Claudia Villosio and Mathis Wagner

Volume 36, issue 1, 2018

Household Search or Individual Search: Does It Matter? pp. 1 - 46

Luca Flabbi and James Mabli

Bias in Returns to Tenure When Firm Wages and Employment Comove: A Quantitative Assessment and Solution pp. 47 - 74

Andy Snell, Pedro Martins, Heiko Stüber and Jonathan Thomas

Imperfect Monitoring of Job Search: Structural Estimation and Policy Design pp. 75 - 120

Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe, Andrey Launov and Bruno Van der Linden

Do Job Networks Disadvantage Women? Evidence from a Recruitment Experiment in Malawi pp. 121 - 157

Lori Beaman, Niall Keleher and Jeremy Magruder

Minimum Wages and Firm Value pp. 159 - 195

Brian Bell and Stephen Machin

Managing Careers in Organizations pp. 197 - 252

Rongzhu Ke, Jin Li and Michael Powell

Advertising and Labor Market Matching: A Tour through the Times pp. 253 - 307

Jed DeVaro and Oliver Gürtler

Volume 35, issue S1, 2017

Introduction: Essays in Honor of Robert J. LaLonde pp. S1 - S6

Orley AshenfelterGuest Editor and David CardGuest Editor

Assessing the Performance of Nonexperimental Estimators for Evaluating Head Start pp. S7 - S63

Andrew Griffen and Petra Todd

The Women of the National Supported Work Demonstration pp. S65 - S97

Sebastian Calonico and Jeffrey Smith

Local Instruments, Global Extrapolation: External Validity of the Labor Supply-Fertility Local Average Treatment Effect pp. S99 - S147

James Bisbee, Rajeev Dehejia, Cristian Pop-Eleches and Cyrus Samii

Estimating (Easily Interpreted) Dynamic Training Effects from Experimental Data pp. S149 - S200

Bocar A. Ba, John Ham, Robert LaLonde and Xianghong Li

Comparing Apples to Oranges: Differences in Women’s and Men’s Incarceration and Sentencing Outcomes pp. S201 - S234

Kristin Butcher, Kyung H. Park and Anne Piehl

Employment, Hours, and Earnings Consequences of Job Loss: US Evidence from the Displaced Workers Survey pp. S235 - S272

Henry S. Farber

Second Chance for High School Dropouts? A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Postsecondary Educational Returns to the GED pp. S273 - S304

Christopher Jepsen, Peter Mueser and Kenneth Troske

The Impact of Expanding Access to Early Childhood Education Services in Rural Indonesia pp. S305 - S335

Sally Anne Brinkman, Amer Hasan, Haeil Jung, Angela Kinnell and Menno Pradhan

The Relative Returns to Workforce Investment Act-Supported Training in Florida by Field, Gender, and Education and Ways to Improve Trainees' Choices pp. S337 - S375

Louis Jacobson and Jonathan Davis

Volume 35, issue 4, 2017

The Distribution of Lifetime Earnings Returns to College pp. 903 - 952

Martin Nybom

One Size Does Not Fit All: Multiple Dimensions of Ability, College Attendance, and Earnings pp. 953 - 991

Maria Prada and Sergio Urzua

Life-Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums, and Internal Rates of Return pp. 993 - 1030

Manudeep Bhuller, Magne Mogstad and Kjell G Salvanes

Customer Discrimination: Evidence from Israel pp. 1031 - 1059

Revital Bar and Asaf Zussman

Following the Crowd: Leisure Complementarities beyond the Household pp. 1061 - 1088

Simon Georges-Kot, Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin

The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization pp. 1089 - 1116

Costanza Biavaschi, Corrado Giulietti and Zahra Siddique

Measurement Error in Income and Schooling and the Bias of Linear Estimators pp. 1117 - 1148

Paul Bingley and Alessandro Martinello

Erratum pp. 1149 - 1152

Matthieu Chemin and Etienne Wasmer

Volume 35, issue 3, 2017

Targeted or Universal Coverage? Assessing Heterogeneity in the Effects of Universal Child Care pp. 609 - 653

Michael J. Kottelenberg and Steven Lehrer

Separate and Unequal in the Labor Market: Human Capital and the Jim Crow Wage Gap pp. 655 - 696

Celeste Carruthers and Marianne H. Wanamaker

Private Equity, Layoffs, and Job Polarization pp. 697 - 754

Martin Olsson and Joacim Tåg

Monitoring for Worker Quality pp. 755 - 785

Gautam Bose and Kevin Lang

A Big Fish in a Small Pond: Ability Rank and Human Capital Investment pp. 787 - 828

Benjamin Elsner and Ingo Isphording

Access to 4-Year Public Colleges and Degree Completion pp. 829 - 867

Joshua Goodman, Michael Hurwitz and Jonathan Smith

Intergenerational Persistence in Latent Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Sweden and the United States pp. 869 - 901

Kelly Vosters and Martin Nybom

Volume 35, issue 2, 2017

Wage Increases and the Dynamics of Reciprocity pp. 299 - 344

Dirk Sliwka and Peter Werner

The Effects of Algorithmic Labor Market Recommendations: Evidence from a Field Experiment pp. 345 - 385

John Horton

Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation, and Channels of Peer Effects pp. 387 - 428

Jan Feld and Ulf Zölitz

Not in My Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals pp. 429 - 483

Andrea Bassanini, Giorgio Brunello and Eve Caroli

Social Networks and Labor Markets: How Strong Ties Relate to Job Finding on Facebook’s Social Network pp. 485 - 518

Laura Gee, Jason Jones and Moira Burke

Universal Child Care, Maternal Employment, and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes: Evidence from the US Lanham Act of 1940 pp. 519 - 564

Chris M. Herbst

Parental and Child Time Investments and the Cognitive Development of Adolescents pp. 565 - 608

Daniela Del Boca, Chiara Monfardini and Cheti Nicoletti

Volume 35, issue 1, 2017

Diagnosing Expertise: Human Capital, Decision Making, and Performance among Physicians pp. 1 - 43

Janet Currie and W. Bentley Macleod

Determinants of the Match between Student Ability and College Quality pp. 45 - 66

Eleanor Dillon and Jeffrey Smith

Giving College Credit Where It Is Due: Advanced Placement Exam Scores and College Outcomes pp. 67 - 147

Jonathan Smith, Michael Hurwitz and Christopher Avery

The Effect of Work First Job Placements on the Distribution of Earnings: An Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression Approach pp. 149 - 190

David Autor, Susan N. Houseman and Sari Pekkala Kerr

Productivity Spillovers in Team Production: Evidence from Professional Basketball pp. 191 - 225

Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler and Joseph Price

Housing Wealth, Property Taxes, and Labor Supply among the Elderly pp. 227 - 263

Lingxiao Zhao and Gregory Burge

Salience and Social Security Benefits pp. 265 - 297

Christian Brinch, Erik Hernaes and Zhiyang Jia