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2001: Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Declining Union Organization

Henry Farber and Bruce Western

2001: Financial Aid Packages and College Enrollment Decisions: An Econometric Case Study

David Linsenmeier, Harvey Rosen and Cecilia Rouse

2001: The Effect of Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure on Recent Immigrants' Earnings

Darren Lubotsky

2001: Interpretation of Regressions with Multiple Proxies

Darren Lubotsky and Martin Wittenberg

2001: Unobserved Ability, Comparative Advantage, and the Rising Return to Education in the United States: A Cohort-Based Approach

Olivier Deschenes

2001: Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural Experiments

Joshua Angrist and Alan Krueger

2001: Another Look at Whether a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

James Hines, Hilary Hoynes and Alan Krueger

2001: Job Loss in the United States, 1981-1999

Henry Farber

2001: Notes on the Economics of Labor Unions

Henry Farber

2001: Would Smaller Classes Help Close the Black-White Achievement Gap?

Alan Krueger and Diane Whitmore

2001: The Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration

Bruce Western, Jeffrey Kling and David Weiman

2001: Cost, Benefits and Distributional Consequences of Inmate Labor

Jeffrey Kling and Alan Krueger

2000: How Did the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement Affect Faculty Retirement?

Orley Ashenfelter and David Card

2000: Economic Considerations and Class Size

Alan Krueger

2000: Do the Poor Pay More? An Empirical Investigation of Price Dispersion in Food Retailing

Lashawn Hayes

2000: Chutes or Ladders? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Earnings

Darren Lubotsky

2000: Let's Go To Court! Firing Costs and Dismissal Conflicts

Jose Galdon-Sanchez and Maia Guell

2000: The Effects of Fixed-Term Contracts on the Duration Distribution of Unemployment: the Spanish Case

Maia Guell

2000: A Study of the Wage Impacts of Unions and Industrial Councils in South Africa

Kristin Butcher and Cecilia Rouse

2000: Moving to Opportunity in Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment

Lawrence Katz, Jeffrey Kling and Jeffrey Liebman

2000: School Reform in the 21st Century: A Look at the Effect of Class Size and School Vouchers on the Academic Achievement of Minority Students

Cecilia Rouse

2000: Do Marital Status and Computer Usage Really Change the Wage Structure? Evidence from a Sample of Twins

Harry Krashinsky

2000: Using Market Valuation to Assess the Importance and Efficiency of Public School Spending

Lisa Barrow and Cecilia Rouse

2000: Round Up The Usual Suspects: The Decline of Unions in The Private Sector, 1973-1998

Henry Farber and Bruce Western

2000: Who Gets Good Jobs? The Hiring Decisions and Compensation Structures of Large Firms

Luojia Hu

2000: Estimating a Censored Dynamic Panel Data Model With an Application to Earnings Dynamics

Luojia Hu

2000: The Digital Divide in Educating African-American Students and Workers

Alan Krueger

2000: Fixed-term Contracts and Unemployment: an Efficiency Wage Analysis

Maia Guell

2000: Employment Protection and Unemployment in an Efficiency Wage Model

Maia Guell

2000: Do CEOs Set Their Own Pay? The Ones Without Principals Do

Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan

2000: Agents With and Without Principals

Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan

2000: Education for Growth: Why and For Whom?

Alan Krueger and Mikael Lindahl

1999: Labor Policy and Labor Research Since the 1960s: Two Ships Sailing in Orthogonal Directions?

Alan Krueger

1999: The Effect of Attending a Small Class in the Early Grades on College-Test Taking and Middle School Test Results: Evidence from Project STAR

Alan Krueger and Diane Whitmore

1999: The Gender Gap in Top Corporate Jobs

Marianne Bertrand and Kevin Hallock

1999: A Review of Estimates of the Schooling/Earnings Relationship, with Tests for Publication Bias

Orley Ashenfelter, Colm Harmon and Hessel Oosterbeek

1999: From Bismarck to Maastricht: The March to European Union and the Labor Compact

Alan Krueger

1999: Are Prices Higher For the Poor in New York City?

Lashawn Hayes

1999: Public Policy and Extended Families: Evidence from South Africa

Marianne Bertrand, Douglas Miller and Sendhil Mullainathan

1999: Measuring the Effect of Arbitration on Wage Levels: The Case of Police Officers

Orley Ashenfelter and Dean Hyslop

1999: The Government As Litigant: Further Tests of the Case Selection Model

Theodore Eisenberg and Henry Farber

1999: Union Success in Representation Elections: Why Does Unit Size Matter?

Henry Farber

1999: Estimating Returns to Schooling When Schooling is Misreported

Thomas Kane, Cecilia Rouse and Doug Staiger

1999: Have Employment Reductions Become Good News for Shareholders? The Effect of Job Loss Announcements on Stock Prices, 1970-97

Henry Farber and Kevin Hallock

1999: The High-pressure U.S. Labor Market of the 1990s

Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger

1999: Interpreting Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Returns to Schooling

Jeffrey Kling

1999: Changing Stock Market Response to Announcement of Job Loss: Evidence from 1970-1997

Henry Farber and Kevin Hallock

1999: Measuring Labor's Share

Alan Krueger

1998: Do Unemployment Insurance Recipients Actively Seek Work? Randomized Trials in Four U.S. States

Orley Ashenfelter, David Ashmore and Olivier Deschenes

1998: Education for Growth in Sweden and the World

Alan Krueger and Mikael Lindahl

1998: From the Invisible Handshake to the Invisible Hand? How Import Competition Changes the Employment Relationship

Marianne Bertrand

1998: Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables

Stacy Dale and Alan Krueger

1998: The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Industrial Activity: Evidence from the 1970 and 1977 Clean Air Act Amendments and the Census of Manufacturers

Michael Greenstone

1998: Schooling, Intelligence, and Income in America: Cracks in the Bell Curve

Orley Ashenfelter and Cecilia Rouse

1998: Is There Discretion in Wage Setting? A Test Using Takeover Legislation

Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan

1998: Network Effects and Welfare Cultures

Marianne Bertrand, Erzo Luttmer and Sendhil Mullainathan

1998: Executive Compensation and Incentives: The Impact of Takeover Legislation

Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan

1998: Forecasting Successful Economics Graduate Students

Alan Krueger and Stephen Wu

1998: Recent Trends in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Coverage: Are Bad Jobs Getting Worse?

Henry Farber and Helen Levy

1998: Empirical Strategies in Labor Economics

Alan Krueger and Joshua Angrist

1998: Mobility and Stability: The Dynamics of Job Change in Labor Markets

Henry Farber

1998: Wage Inequality in the U.S. during the 1980s: Rising Dispersion or Falling Minimum Wage?

David Lee

1998: Who Pays for Health Insurance? Employee Contributions to Health Insurance Premiums

Helen Levy

1998: A Useful Interpretation of R2; in Binary Choice Models (Or, Have We Dismissed the Good Old R2; Prematurely)

Reuben Gronau

1998: Schools and Student Achievement: More Evidence From the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program

Cecilia Rouse

1998: Reassessing the View that American Schools Are Broken

Alan Krueger

1998: Has the Rate of Job Loss Increased in the Nineties?

Henry Farber