We estimate the effect of education on participation in criminal activity using changes in state
compulsory schooling laws over time to account for the endogeneity of schooling decisions …

We exploit the military mobilization for World War II to investigate the effects of female labor
supply on the wage structure. The mobilization drew many women into the workforce …

The identification of aggregate human-capital externalities is still not fully understood. The
existing (Mincerian) approach confounds positive externalities with wage changes due to a …

To identify communication externalities in French cities, we exploit a unique survey
recording workplace communication of individual workers. Our hypothesis is that in larger …

Real estate agents typically charge a 6 percent commission, regardless of the price of the
house sold. As a consequence, the commission fee from selling a house will differ …

This paper argues that cross-border human capital flows from developing countries to
developed countries over the next half-century will demand a new set of policy responses …

The case for corrective economic policies as stated in Econ101 is relatively straightforward.
In some instances, there is a wedge between the private costs (or benefits) resulting from …

Though popular, registered education savings plans and the related Canadian education
savings grants are a needless, complex and ill-targeted way of supporting postsecondary …

Young highly educated workers developed in the 70's and 80's a preference for working in
larger cities. As a consequence highly educated young workers in 1990 were over …

This dissertation consists of four empirical studies, each using military-induced variation to
examine various aspects of human capital production and the US labor market. The first two …