Working Papers

2021

Why Majors Matter: Occupation Specificity, Job Skills, and College Selectivity
Deborah M. Weiss, Center on Law, Business and Economics, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Matthew L. Spitzer, Center on Law, Business and Economics, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Colton Cronin, Vanderbilt Law School, Vanderbilt University
Neil Chin, SIPA Columbia University

Career Spillovers in Internal Labor Markets
Nicola Bianchi, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Giulia Bovini, Bank of Italy
Jin Li,  University of Hong Kong
Matteo Paradisi, Harvard University
Michael Powell, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

The Returns to Nursing: Evidence from a Parental Leave Program
Benjamin Friedrich, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Martin B. Hackmann, University of California, Los Angeles

Effect of Mood and Worker Incentives on Workplace Productivity
Decio Coviello, HEC Montreal
Erika Deserranno, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Nicola Persico, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Paola Sapienza, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2020

Counterproductive Worker Behavior After a Pay Cut
Decio Coviello, HEC Montreal
Erika Deserranno, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Nicola Persico, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2019

Sexual Harms Without Misogyny
University of Chicago Legal Forum, Vol. 2019, No. 1, 2019
Deborah Weiss, Center on Law, Business and Economics, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Earnings Dynamics and Firm-Level Shocks
Benjamin Friedrich, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Lisa Laun, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation
Costas Meghir, Cowles Foundation Yale University
Luigi Pistaferri, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Stanford University

Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer
Decio Coviello, HEC Montreal
Erika Deserranno, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Nicola Persico, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

2018

Criminal Background and Job Performance
IZA Journal of Labor Policy (2018) 7:8
Dylan Minor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Nicola Persico, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Deborah Weiss, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

2016

Toxic Workers
Michael Housman, Cornerstone OnDemand
Dylan Minor, Anderson School of Management (UCLA)

2015

Time-Dependent Topic Analysis with Endogenous and Exogenous Processes
Baiyang Wang, Department of Statistics, Northwestern University
Diego Klabjan, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University

Labor Market Peer Firms
Nan Li, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

2014

Training Contracts, Worker Overconfidence, and the Provision of Firm-Sponsored General Training
(update forthcoming)
Mitchell Hoffman, University of Toronto Rotman School of Management
Stephen Burks, University of Minnesota