Our paper in Labour Economics (Gould and Kaplan 2011) examined the general issue of how workers affect the productivity of co-workers, and in particular whether unethical practices that boost performance are transmitted between workers.... more
Our paper in Labour Economics (Gould and Kaplan 2011) examined the general issue of how workers affect the productivity of co-workers, and in particular whether unethical practices that boost performance are transmitted between workers. To do this, we investigated the steroid epidemic in Major League Baseball and Jose Canseco's claims that he taught his teammates how to acquire and use steroids and human growth hormone. Our results support Canseco's claim by presenting a striking pattern whereby a player's performance indeed tends to increase after being a teammate of Canseco. Our results are based upon standard measures of performance, and we found very little systematic evidence across outcome measures that any comparable player increased the performance of his peers in a similar way. J. C. Bradbury (2013) has authored an extensive critique of our paper; the present paper is our reply. Bradbury makes no claims that our results are non-replicable or that they involve a ...
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This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment decline on the socio-economic outcomes within and between black and white Americans since 1960. The analysis shows that manufacturing decline negatively impacted blacks in terms... more
This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment decline on the socio-economic outcomes within and between black and white Americans since 1960. The analysis shows that manufacturing decline negatively impacted blacks in terms of their wages, employment, marriage rates, house values, poverty rates, death rates, single parenthood, teen motherhood, child poverty, and child mortality. In addition, the decline in manufacturing increased inequality within the black community for wages and other outcomes. Similar patterns are found for whites, but to a lesser degree – leading to larger gaps between whites and blacks in wages, marriage patterns, poverty, single-parenthood, and death rates.
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Internalizing Agglomeration Economies: The Pricing of Space in Shopping Malls. ... This information is provided to you by IDEAS at the Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut using RePEc... more
Internalizing Agglomeration Economies: The Pricing of Space in Shopping Malls. ... This information is provided to you by IDEAS at the Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut using RePEc data on a server sponsored by the ...
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This Paper examines why developed countries are monogamous while rich men throughout history have tended to practice polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the... more
This Paper examines why developed countries are monogamous while rich men throughout history have tended to practice polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage market where polygyny is not ruled out. Our model demonstrates, however, that while higher male inequality generates more polygyny, higher female inequality produces a
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ABSTRACT Technological progress renders various skills obsolete, however, the rate of skill obsolescence will vary according to the worker's human capital investments. Workers heavily invested in general skills, such as education,... more
ABSTRACT Technological progress renders various skills obsolete, however, the rate of skill obsolescence will vary according to the worker's human capital investments. Workers heavily invested in general skills, such as education, will not suffer high rates of obsolescence, while less-educated workers who invest more in “technology-specific” skills will suffer more when the technology is changed. Consistent with this framework, this chapter demonstrates that increasing randomness is the primary source of inequality growth within uneducated workers, whereas inequality growth within educated workers is determined more by predictable factors. Furthermore, this chapter shows that increasing randomness generates a “precautionary” demand for education.
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We examine why developed societies are monogamous while rich men throughout history have typically practiced polygyny. Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage market. However,... more
We examine why developed societies are monogamous while rich men throughout history have typically practiced polygyny. Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage market. However, we demonstrate that higher female inequality in the marriage market reduces polygyny. Moreover, we show that female inequality increases in the process of development as women are valued more for the quality of their children than for the quantity. Consequently, male inequality generates inequality in the number of wives per man in traditional societies, but manifests itself as inequality in the quality of wives in developed societies. (JEL J12, J16, J24, Z13)
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Internalizing Agglomeration Economies: The Pricing of Space in Shopping Malls. ... This information is provided to you by IDEAS at the Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut using RePEc... more
Internalizing Agglomeration Economies: The Pricing of Space in Shopping Malls. ... This information is provided to you by IDEAS at the Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut using RePEc data on a server sponsored by the ...
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116 THE JOURNAL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS externalities are being internalized, as in Steven Cheung's celebrated paper on internalizing externalities between apple growers and traditional bee-keepers.2 In this article, we use... more
116 THE JOURNAL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS externalities are being internalized, as in Steven Cheung's celebrated paper on internalizing externalities between apple growers and traditional bee-keepers.2 In this article, we use store rent data to estimate the scale of de-mand ...
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* We would like to thank Joshua Angrist, Simon Burgess, Esther Duflo, Yona Rubinstein and Dani Tsiddon for helpful suggestions and Shula Mula for insightful conversations on the absorption process of Ethiopians to Israel. We are grateful... more
* We would like to thank Joshua Angrist, Simon Burgess, Esther Duflo, Yona Rubinstein and Dani Tsiddon for helpful suggestions and Shula Mula for insightful conversations on the absorption process of Ethiopians to Israel. We are grateful to participants at the CEPR Conference on "Inequality and Education" (Paris, May 2003), and to seminar participants in Amsterdam, Tel Aviv and the
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116 THE JOURNAL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS externalities are being internalized, as in Steven Cheung's celebrated paper on internalizing externalities between apple growers and traditional bee-keepers.2 In this article, we use... more
116 THE JOURNAL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS externalities are being internalized, as in Steven Cheung's celebrated paper on internalizing externalities between apple growers and traditional bee-keepers.2 In this article, we use store rent data to estimate the scale of de-mand ...
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282 THE JOURNAL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS We rely on these cross-sectional regularities to resolve deeper time-series mysterieswhy are auto prices declining by less over the model year now than before, while within-season apparel prices are... more
282 THE JOURNAL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS We rely on these cross-sectional regularities to resolve deeper time-series mysterieswhy are auto prices declining by less over the model year now than before, while within-season apparel prices are falling more rapidly? While ...