Categories: Economic History
NBER News
- Intergenerational Mobility between and within Canada and the United States -- by Marie Connolly, Miles Corak, Catherine HaeckIntergenerational income mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada, but varies significantly within each country. Our sub-national analysis finds that the national border only partially distinguishes the close to one thousand regions we analyze within these two countries. The Canada-US border divides Central and Eastern Canada from the Great Lakes regions and […]
- Does Class Size Matter? How, and at What Cost? -- by Desire Kedagni, Kala Krishna, Rigissa Megalokonomou, Yingyan ZhaoUsing high quality administrative data on Greece we show that class size has a hump shaped effect on achievement. We do so both nonparametrically and parametrically, while controlling for potential endogeneity and allowing for quantile effects. We then embed our estimates for this relationship in a dynamic structural model with costs of hiring and firing. […]
- An Empirical Total Survey Error Decomposition Using Data Combination -- by Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas MittagSurvey error is known to be pervasive and to bias even simple, but important estimates of means, rates, and totals, such as the poverty and the unemployment rate. To summarize and analyze the extent, sources, and consequences of survey error, we define empirical counterparts of key components of the Total Survey Error Framework that can […]
- Combining Administrative and Survey Data to Improve Income Measurement -- by Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas MittagWe describe methods of combining administrative and survey data to improve the measurement of income. We begin by decomposing the total survey error in the mean of survey reports of dollars received from a government transfer program. We decompose this error into three parts, generalized coverage error (which combines coverage and unit non-response error and […]
- The Return to Hours Worked Within and Across Occupations: Implications for the Gender Wage Gap -- by Jeffrey T. Denning, Brian Jacob, Lars Lefgren, Christian vom LehnWe document two empirical phenomena. First, the observational wage returns to hours worked within occupation is small, and even negative in some specifications. Second, the wage return to average hours worked across occupations is large. We develop a conceptual framework that reconciles these facts, where the key insight is that workers choose jobs as a […]
