In the retail and food service sectors, work schedules change from day-to-day and week-to-week, often with little advance notice, posing a…
We estimate the impact of charter schools on early-life labor market outcomes in Texas. We find that, at the mean, charter schools have no…
A randomized experiment (N = 3,037) examines the impact of conditional and unconditional monetary incentives on response rates to a mail…
White workers experience significant advantages in the labor market both in hiring and in compensation compared to their non-white peers.…
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate…
We conducted a randomized controlled trial of an information intervention to evaluate the effects of providing information to families on…
Most jobs require teamwork. Are some people good team players? In this paper we design and test a new method for identifying individual…
Objectives. To estimate if Washington State's paid sick leave law increased access to paid sick leave, reduced employees' working while…
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We study the drivers of financial distress using a large-scale field experiment that offered randomly selected borrowers a combination of (…
In this paper, we use detailed job vacancy data to estimate changes in skill demand in the years since the Great Recession. The share of…