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Cracks in the Melting Pot: Immigration, School Choice, and Segregation

By Elizabeth U. Cascio and Ethan G. Lewis

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, August 2012

We examine whether low-skilled immigration to the United States has contributed to immigrants' residential isolation by reducing native demand for public schools. We address endogeneity in school demographics using established Mexican settlement patterns ...

Employment and Retirement Following a Late-Career Job Loss

By Sewin Chan and Ann Huff Stevens

蝌蚪网 Review, May 1999

Strategic Redistricting

By Faruk Gul and Wolfgang Pesendorfer

蝌蚪网 Review, September 2010

Two parties choose redistricting plans to maximize their probability of winning a majority in the House of Representatives. In the unique equilibrium, parties maximally segregate their opponents' supporters but pool their own supporters into uniform dist...

Learning by Driving: Productivity Improvements by New York City Taxi Drivers

By Kareem Haggag, Brian McManus, and Giovanni Paci

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics, January 2017

We study learning by doing by New York City taxi drivers, who have substantial discretion over their driving strategies and receive compensation closely tied to their success in finding customers. In addition to documenting learning overall by these entre...

Understanding Black-White Wage Differentials, 1960-1990

By James J. Heckman, Thomas M. Lyons, and Petra E. Todd

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2000

The Labor Market for New Ph.D. Economists

By John J. Siegfried and Wendy A. Stock

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1999

Presents results from a survey of 450 new (1996-97) Ph.D. economists, providing information about employment, underemployment, employers, work activities, salaries, and job satisfaction. Comparisons are made across ranks of the graduates' Ph.D. programs, ...

Analyzing the Fiscal Impact of U.S. Immigration

By Alan J. Auerbach and Philip Oreopoulos

蝌蚪网 Review, May 1999

How to Control Controlled School Choice: Comment

By Battal 顿辞臒补苍

蝌蚪网 Review, April 2017

Echenique and Yenmez (2015), in Theorem 2, characterize choice rules that are "generated by reserves for the priority." We show that the "only if" part is not correct. We exhibit a choice rule that is generated by reserves for the priority b...

International Trade as an "Integrated Equilibrium": New Perspectives

By Donald R. Davis and David E. Weinstein

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2000

Testing for the Lucas Critique: A Quantitative Investigation

By Jesper Linde

蝌蚪网 Review, September 2001

In this paper, I try to shed some new light on the "puzzle" of why the Lucas critique, believed to be important by most economists, seems to have received very little empirical support. I use a real-business-cycle model to verify that the Lucas critique i...

Reversing the Keynesian Asymmetry

By John Bennett and Manfredi M. A. La Manna

蝌蚪网 Review, December 2001

Corruptible Advice

By Erik Durbin and Ganesh Iyer

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, August 2009

We study information transmission to a decision maker from an advisor who values a reputation for incorruptibility in the presence of a third party who offers unobservable payments/bribes. While it is common to ascribe negative effects to such bribes, ...

Market Share Dynamics and the "Persistence of Leadership" Debate

By John Sutton

蝌蚪网 Review, March 2007

A new 45-industry, 23-year, dataset for Japan is used to investigate the duration of industry leadership. A new scaling relationship linking a firm's current market share with the standard deviation of market share changes is reported. This relationshi...

Corporate Taxes and Internal Borrowing within Multinational Firms

By Peter Egger, Christian Keuschnigg, Valeria Merlo, and Georg Wamser

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, May 2014

This study develops a theoretical model of a multinational firm with an internal capital market. Hypotheses regarding the role of local versus foreign characteristics such as profit tax rates, lack of institutional quality, financial underdevelopment, ...

Report of the Director: Job Openings for Economists

By John J. Siegfried

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2011

Global Savings and Global Investment: The Transmission of Identified Fiscal Shocks

By James Feyrer and Jay Shambaugh

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, May 2012

This paper examines the effect of exogenous shocks to savings on world capital markets. Exogenous tax increases in the United States (from Romer and Romer 2010) are only partially offset by changes in domestic private savings, and only a small amount is a...

Income-Distribution Dynamics with Endogenous Fertility

By Michael Kremer and Daniel Chen

蝌蚪网 Review, May 1999

Symposium on Tax Reform

[Symposium: Tax Reform]

By Henry J. Aaron

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1987

The papers in this symposium are a representative sample of the diverse views economists hold on the political and economic advantages and disadvantages of the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

Can Downstream Waste Disposal Policies Encourage Upstream "Design for Environment"?

By Paul Calcott and Margaret Walls

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2000

E-Commerce: Measurement and Measurement Issues

By Barbara M. Fraumeni

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2001