There is growing interest in the heterogeneity of earnings among college graduates. This
study examines earnings differentials across both individual and institutional characteristics …

Gender differences in promotion within the economics profession have long been a concern
of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP). In a …

The existence of old boy networks has long been postulated as a possible explanation for
the presence of gender differences in market outcomes but with little empirical support …

Advocates of market-based education reforms (including such policies as choice, charters,
vouchers, and outright privatization) argue that they represent ready solutions to clearly …

While there is wide agreement that leaders matter, little is known regarding the role that
human capital plays in determining who becomes one. We exploit unique attributes of the …

The screening mechanism of export trade facilitates enterprises to increase their recruitment
threshold, which in turn has a biased impact on the employment of heterogeneous …

This paper contributes to the debate on race-and gender-based discrimination in grading.
We apply a quasi-experimental research design exploiting a shift from open grading in 2018 …

The paper reviews studies analysing the relationship between infrastructures and economic
performance. Four different approaches are separately considered along an ideal path from …

We develop a model in which individuals compete for a fixed pool of prizes by investing
effort in a contest. Individuals belong to two separate and identifiable groups. We say that …

Conventional wisdom suggests that during communism, tastes for discrimination were
suppressed. In partial explanation for ethnic tensions observed following central planning …