We show that administrative hourly wage data exhibits considerable bunching at round numbers that cannot be explained by rounding of survey respondents. We consider two explanationsworker left-digit b
This is the replication package for "Careers in Firms: The Role of Learning about Ability and Human Capital Acquisition," accepted in 2023 by the Journal of Political Economy.
Graph and download economic data for Average Weekly Earnings of All Employees: Total Private in Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN (MSA) (SMU18292000500000011A) from 2011 to 2023 about Lafayette, payrolls,
This paper develops a model showing that people who have flexibility in choosing how much to work will prefer to invest substantially more of their money in risky assets than if they had no such flexi
Adjusted for many other determinants, beauty affects earnings; but does it lead directly to the differences in productivity that we believe generate earnings differences? We take a large sample of stu