| Altruism and Burnout: Long Hours in the Teaching Profession |
2022 |
1168 |
This article explores why many public school teachers work substantially more hours than required by contract, given that the elasticity of their earnings with respect to their hours is close to zero. The author introduces a theoretical framework for... |
| Are Female Supervisors More Female-Friendly? |
2014 |
2747 |
We introduce the idea that easily inferable demographic characteristics such as gender may not be sufficient to define type in the supervisor-employee mentoring relationship. We use longitudinal data on athletic directors at NCAA Division I programs ... |
| Career Implications of Having a Female-Friendly Supervisor |
2018 |
919 |
The authors study how variations in supervisors’ attitudes toward working with females generate gender differences in workers’ observed career outcomes. The employment records of athletic directors and head coaches in a set of NCAA Division I program... |
| The gender gap in federal and private support for entrepreneurship |
2015 |
983 |
The role of gender in entrepreneurship has been thoroughly investigated. However, less is knownabout gender differences in access to private investment when attempting to develop a new technology. In this paper, we use data collected by the National ... |
| High tech, high touch: The impact of an online course intervention on academic performance and persistence in higher education |
2021 |
921 |
Online courses are a growing part of the community college experience, but many students, particularly minority students or students who are more at-risk, face challenges in passing those courses. This paper presents results from an experimental stud... |
| The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on the Sources of Health Insurance Coverage of Undergraduate Students in the United States |
2021 |
931 |
This article examines how the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions affected the sources of health insurance coverage of undergraduate students in the United States. We show that the Affordable Care Act expansions increased the Medicaid coverage of... |
| Innovative activity and gender dynamics |
2021 |
927 |
We explore the innovative performance of firms resulting from their Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) research-funded projects in terms of the gender dynamics of the firms. Using commercialization as the relevant performance metric, ... |
| Investigating Income Effects in Scanner Data: Do Gasoline Prices Affect Grocery Purchases? |
2010 |
2788 |
There is much discussion in the popular press about how consumers adjust their purchase decisions for items from lattes and restaurant meals to which type of meat to purchase for dinner during times of rising fuel prices.1 While analysts a... |
| Leveraging entrepreneurship through private investments: Does gender matter? |
2013 |
2638 |
Using project data from a random sample of Phase II research awards from the National Institutes of Health SBIR program, we estimate the relative probability that woman-owned firms are able to attract private investments to fund the transition of the... |
| Occupational Social Value and Returns to Long Hours |
2020 |
855 |
This paper examines the phenomenon of uncompensated long hours in jobs with pro-social characteristics and presents evidence that long-hour wage premiums and occupational social value are substitutes in compensating salaried workers who supply hours ... |
| On the economic performance of nascent entrepreneurs |
2016 |
757 |
This paper assesses the R&D performance of nascent and established technology-based small firms that receive a Phase II R&D award from the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Our empirical analysis is based on a two-stage selectio... |
| Public sector entrepreneurship, politics, and innovation |
2021 |
768 |
We suggest that a political leader or a political administration can be described in terms of a public sector entrepreneurship framework. To illustrate, we define the actions of US President Donald Trump’s Administration to refocus the emphasis of th... |
| Requiring Versus Recommending Preparation Before Class: Does It Matter? |
2018 |
725 |
Asking students to come to class prepared is quite common in undergraduate and graduate education. We use a quasiexperimental design to assess whether requiring undergraduate students in an introductory course to review prior to lecture the material ... |
| Student loans or marriage? A look at the highly educated |
2016 |
1036 |
I examine the relationship between student loans and marital status among individuals considering or pursuing graduate management education. Using data from a panel survey of registrants for the Graduate Management Admission Test, I show that the amo... |
| Tax benefits for graduate education: Incentives for whom? |
2013 |
2012 |
Numerous studies have examined the enrollment responses of traditional undergraduate students to the introduction of government-provided tuition subsidies, but far less attention has been devoted to the elasticity of demand for graduate education. Th... |
| Teachers’ working hours during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
2022 |
1126 |
This study uses nationally representative data for the United States from the Basic Monthly Current Population Survey to document how teachers’ hours of work have changed in 2020 and 2021 relative to typical labor supply levels and to the hours worke... |
| Using Mixed Methods to Explore Variations in Impact Within RCTs: The Case of Project COMPASS |
2021 |
814 |
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in education are common as the design allows for an unbiased estimate of the overall impact of a program. As more RCTs are completed, researchers are also noting that an overall average impact may mask substantial ... |
| Worker mobility, employer-provided general training, and the choice of graduate education. |
2012 |
2291 |
This paper links inherent mobility to observed schooling choices. A job search model with graduate education predicts that more mobile workers are more likely to enroll in full-time MBA programs. Adding to the literature on employer-sponsored general... |
| Working Long Hours and Early Career Outcomes in the High-End Labor Market. |
2013 |
4644 |
This study establishes empirically a positive but nonlinear relationship
between weekly hours and hourly wage growth. For workers
who put in over 47 hours per week, 5 extra hours are associated
with a 1% increase in annual wage growth. This correl... |
| Workplace support and diversity in the market for public school teachers |
2019 |
720 |
Mentoring, and to a greater extent support from high-level administrators, has been shown to decrease worker turnover in general, but little is known about its differential impact on minority workers. Utilizing four waves of the Schools and Staffing ... |