Labor markets are not perfectly competitive: Monopsony power enables employers to pay
workers less than the marginal revenue product of labor. We review three theoretical …

Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects
of programs or policies. In the last two decades, much research has been done on the …

In this article, we document and discuss salient features of collective bargaining systems in
the OECD countries, with the goal of debunking some misconceptions and myths and …

The nature of the relationship between employers and employees has been changing over
the past three decades, with firms increasingly relying on contractors, temp agencies, and …

Featuring engaging examples from diverse disciplines, this book explains how to use
modern approaches to quasi-experimentation to derive credible estimates of treatment …

0Today the only thing big about “Big Labor” is its problems. By the early 1970s, or ga nized
labor had already begun its decades-long decline, but still nearly a quarter of all private …

This paper provides an introduction and “user guide” to Regression Discontinuity (RD)
designs for empirical researchers. It presents the basic theory behind the research design …

The regression discontinuity (RD) design is a valuable tool for identifying electoral effects,
but this design is only effective when relevant actors do not have precise control over …

Standard sufficient conditions for identification in the regression discontinuity design are
continuity of the conditional expectation of counterfactual outcomes in the running variable …

In regression discontinuity (RD) designs for evaluating causal effects of interventions,
assignment to a treatment is determined at least partly by the value of an observed covariate …