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Estimating the effect of training programs on earnings

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O Ashenfelter - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1978 - JSTOR
GOVERNMENTAL post-schooling train-ing programs have become a permanent fixture of
the US economy in the last decade. These programs are typically advocated for diverse
reasons:(1) to reduce inflation by the provision of more skilled workers to alleviate ...
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Estimates of the economic return to schooling from a new sample of twins

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A Krueger… - 1992 - nber.org
This paper uses a new survey to contrast the wages of genetically identical twins with
different schooling levels. Multiple measurements of schooling levels were also collected to
assess the effect of reporting error on the estimated economic returns to schooling. The ...
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[BOOK] Handbook of labor economics

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O Ashenfelter - 1999 - books.google.com
Modern labor economics has continued to grow and develop since the first volumes of this
Handbook were published. The subject matter of labor economics continues to have at its
core an attempt to systematically find empirical analyses that are consistent with a ...
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Bargaining theory, trade unions, and industrial strike activity

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O Ashenfelter… - The American Economic Review, 1969 - JSTOR
The purpose of this paper is to examine certain received theories of the firm, trade union
behavior, and bargaining in order to derive testable implications concerning the conditions
under which labor disputes are more likely to occur. There are at least three reasons why ...
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How auctions work for wine and art

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O Ashenfelter - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1989 - JSTOR
A t the first wine auction I ever attended, I saw the repeal of the law of one price. The wine
being sold was Chateau Palmer, a red Bordeaux, from the glorious 1961 vintage. The
results of the auction I watched are contained in Table 1. Each lot (of 12 bottles) of wine for ...
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Using the longitudinal structure of earnings to estimate the effect of training programs

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O Ashenfelter… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1985 - JSTOR
We use the longitudinal structure of earnings of trainees and a comparison group to estimate
the effectiveness of training for participants in the 1976 CETA programs. We fit a
components-of-variance model to earnings of the comparison group and use a simple ...
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Income, schooling, and ability: Evidence from a new sample of identical twins

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O Ashenfelter… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 1998 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract We develop a model of optimal schooling investments and estimate it using new
data on approximately 700 identical twins. We estimate an average return to schooling of 9
percent for identical twins, but estimated returns appear to be slightly higher for less able ...
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A review of estimates of the schooling/earnings relationship, with tests for publication bias

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O Ashenfelter, C Harmon… - Labour economics, 1999 - Elsevier
In this ā paper we provide an analytical review of previous estimates of the rate of return on
schooling investments and measure how these estimates vary by country, over time, and by
estimation method. We find evidence of reporting (or “file drawer”) bias in the estimates ...
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Testing the efficiency of employment contracts

JN Brown… - The Journal of Political Economy, 1986 - JSTOR
The recent literature on employment contracts emphasizes that it is in the interests of the
parties to produce institutional arrangements that lead to employment contracts that we have
termed" strongly efficient." Strong efficiencyimplies that employment is set so as to equate ...
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The estimation of income and substitution effects in a model of family labor supply

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O Ashenfelter… - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric …, 1974 - JSTOR
This paper contains the formulation of the theoretical restrictions on the labor supply
functions of the husband and wife in a model of family labor supply in a manner that makes
them readily amenable to test and, if they are not rejected, to imposition onto the data. It ...
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Politics and the judiciary: The influence of judicial background on case outcomes

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O Ashenfelter, T Eisenberg… - J. Legal Stud., 1995 - HeinOnline
Abstract It is widely believed that the background and worldview of judges influence their
decisions. This article uses the fact that judges are assigned their cases randomly to assess
the effect of judicial background on the outcome of cases from the day-to-day docket in ...
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American trade union growth: 1900-1960

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O Ashenfelter… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1969 - JSTOR
This paper presents some quantitative results on the determi- nants of the growth of American
trade union membership in the period 1900-1960. An investigation of the historical determinants
of union growth is of interest for at least two reasons. First, one obvi- ous index of the ...
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Labour supply, commodity demand and the allocation of time

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M Abbott… - The Review of Economic Studies, 1976 - JSTOR
Predictions of the behavioural responses to income and commodity taxes and subsidies
have become of increasing interest in recent years. On the one hand, these predictions are
important for discussions of the ultimate size of money transfers that will result from the ...
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Education, unemployment, and earnings

O Ashenfelter… - The Journal of Political Economy, 1979 - JSTOR
Using data on adult male workers, we first investigate the incremental effect of 1 year of
schooling on unemployed hours and use this calculation to explain the difference in the
proportional effects of schooling on earnings and wages. Schooling apparently reduces ...
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Testing for price anomalies in real estate auctions

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O Ashenfelter… - 1992 - nber.org
This paper reports on the results of an auction sale of 83 condominium apartment units in
New Jersey. At the auction every unit was hammered down, but, unknown to the 2,348
registered bidders, 40% of the sales fell through. Prices in the subsequent sale of ...
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Compliance with the minimum wage law

O Ashenfelter… - The Journal of Political Economy, 1979 - JSTOR
This paper investigates the extent and patterns of compliance with the federal minimum
wage. Using a profit-maximizing model of compliance, predictions about compliance with
weak or random government enforcement are made. Such enforcement is not random, ...
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Models of arbitrator behavior: Theory and evidence

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OC Ashenfelter… - 1983 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MODELS OF ARBITRATOR BEHAVIOR:
THEORY AND EVIDENCE Orley Ashenfelter David E. Bloom Working Paper No.
11^9 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH IO5O ...
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[PDF] Anticipated unemployment, temporary layoffs, and compensating wage differentials

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JM Abowd… - 1981 - nber.org
... John M. Abowd and Orley Ashenfelter This paper models the competitive equilibrium wage rate
when employ- ment offers vary according to the amount of anticipated unemployment and
unemployment risk. ... Orley Ashenfelter is Professor of Economics, Princeton University. ...
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Estimates of the returns to schooling from sibling data: Fathers, sons, and brothers

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O Ashenfelter… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 1997 - MIT Press
Data on brothers and on fathers and sons from the National Longitudinal Survey are used to
consider the impact of omitted variables and measurement errors on the economic returns to
schooling. The analysis suggests that the upward bias in estimated returns due to omitted ...
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Determinants of participation in presidential elections

O Ashenfelter… - JL & Econ., 1975 - HeinOnline
T Princeton University his paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of the
probability that an individual will vote in Presidential elections. Our interest in this subject is
prompted in part by an interest in social policy. In the last fifteen years there have been ...
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Schooling, intelligence, and income in America: cracks in the Bell Curve

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O Ashenfelter… - 1999 - nber.org
One of the best documented relationships in economics is the link between education and
income: higher educated people have higher incomes. Advocates argue that education
provides skills, or human capital, that raises an individual's productivity. Critics argue that ...
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Auctions and the Price of Art

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O Ashenfelter… - Journal of Economic Literature, 2003 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: This paper contains a review of the burgeoning new research of the last decade
that has been designed to shed light on how the art auction system works, what it indicates
about price formation, and how well it performs. We begin with a short description of the ...
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Racial discrimination and trade unionism

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O Ashenfelter - The Journal of Political Economy, 1972 - JSTOR
Whether the presence of trade unionism in the US economy exacerbates or mitigates the
extent of labor market discrimination against black workers depends on the size of
union/nonunion wage differentials for black and white workers as well as the extent to ...
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Unionism, relative wages, and labor quality in US manufacturing industries

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O Ashenfelter… - International Economic Review, 1972 - JSTOR
HG LEWIS'ESTIMATE [23] that unions had raised the average wage rate of union workers by
10-15 percent above that of non-union workers2 in the period 1957-58 has served as a
benchmark for further study, but it has not gone unchallenged. Most of the more recent ...
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Using mandated speed limits to measure the value of a statistical life

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O Ashenfelter… - 2002 - nber.org
In 1987 the federal government permitted states to raise the speed limit on their rural
interstate roads, but not on their urban interstate roads, from 55 mph to 65 mph for the first
time in over a decade. Since the states that adopted the higher speed limit must have ...
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An experimental comparison of dispute rates in alternative arbitration systems

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O Ashenfelter, J Currie, HS Farber… - 1990 - nber.org
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES AN EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON OF DISPUTE RATES
IN ALTERNATIVE ARBITRATION SYSTEMS Orley Ashenfelter Janet Currie Henry S. Farber
Matthew Spiegel Working Paper No. 3417 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ...
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Determining participation in income-tested social programs

O Ashenfelter - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1983 - JSTOR
Estimates of the number of participants to expect in income-tested social programs may be
made from data on income distributions alone. These simple estimates will be biased if the
social program induces incentive effects or if some eligible participants do not pursue their ...
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Unemployment as disequilibrium in a model of aggregate labor supply

O Ashenfelter - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1980 - JSTOR
This paper is an exploration of the empirical implications for the behavior of consumer-
workers of treating unemployment as a constraint on choice rather than the result of it. The
consequences of one family member's unemployment for the constrained commodity ...
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Did the elimination of mandatory retirement affect faculty retirement flows?

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O Ashenfelter… - 2001 - nber.org
A special exemption from the 1986 Age Discrimination Act allowed colleges and universities
to enforce mandatory retirement of faculty at age 70 until 1994. We compare faculty turnover
rates at a large sample of institutions before and after the federal law change, and at a set ...
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Sex discrimination and product market competition: The case of the banking industry

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O Ashenfelter… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 1986 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract This paper examines the relationship between product market competition and
employment discrimination using an especially constructed data set that links
microeconomic data on female employment with measures of market concentration in the ...
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Wage movements and the labour market equilibrium hypothesis

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J Altonji… - Economica, 1980 - JSTOR
The view that aggregate monetary and fiscal policies cannot affect unemployment in the
long run is now accepted by both academic economists and public officials.'Some
academics were convinced early on that demand management policies must have a ...
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The effect of unionization on wages in the public sector: The case of fire fighters

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O Ashenfelter - Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1971 - JSTOR
The recent growth in both the size and the militance of rank-and-file union membership in
the public sector has been the cause for increasing public concern over the effects that
unions may have on wages and thus on the level of municipal services and the allocation ...
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Do unemployment insurance recipients actively seek work? Evidence from randomized trials in four US States

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O Ashenfelter, D Ashmore… - Journal of Econometrics, 2005 - Elsevier
In this paper, we report the results of the only field test of which we are aware that uses
randomized trials to measure whether stricter enforcement and verification of work search
behavior alone decreases unemployment claims and benefits paid in the US ...
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Bordeaux wine vintage quality and the weather

O Ashenfelter, D Ashmore… - 1995 - books.google.com
In this chapter we show that the quality of the vintage for red Bordeaux wines, as judged by
the prices of mature wines, can be predicted by the weather during the growing season that
produced the wines. Red Bordeaux wines have been produced in the same place and in ...
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Nonparametric tests of market structure: an application to the cigarette industry

O Ashenfelter… - The Journal of Industrial Economics, 1987 - JSTOR
In this paper the revealed preference approach is used to construct a nonparametric test of
the monopoly model and some simple generalizations of it, and the test is applied to data for
the cigarette industry. The test exploits the maintained hypothesis that variations in the ...
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Time series representations of economic variables and alternative models of the labour market

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O Ashenfelter… - The Review of Economic Studies, 1982 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Accepting the hypothesis that the time-series “facts” of the aggregate labour market
may be summarized by the linear autoregressive and moving average representations of
wages, prices, unemployment, and interest rates implies that a useful theory ought to lead ...
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[BOOK] The effect of direct job creation and training programs on low-skilled workers

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LJ Bassi, O Ashenfelter, JR Antos, P Gottschalk… - 1985 - asdspace300l.princeton.edu
Abstract This paper summarizes the literature on the impact of employment and training
programs and concludes that they have been neither an overwhelming success nor a
complete failure in terms of their ability to increase the long-term employment and ...
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Trade unions and the rate of change of money wages in United States manufacturing industry

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OC Ashenfelter, GE Johnson… - The Review of Economic …, 1972 - JSTOR
Page 1. Trade Unions and the Rate of Change of Money Wages in United States
Manufacturing Industry"2 0. C. ASHENFELTER GE JOHNSON Princeton University
University of Michigan and JH PENCAVEL Stanford University ...
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Graduate education, ability, and earnings

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O Ashenfelter… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1968 - JSTOR
SUBSTANTIAL interest in recent years has centered on the relationship between personal
earnings and a myriad of education related variables.'In this paper we present estimates of
the impact on earnings of schooling, an index of ability, and a set of other relevant ...
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Arbitrator behavior

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O Ashenfelter - The American Economic Review, 1987 - JSTOR
It is rarely worth specifying the contractual obligations in an ongoing agreement so
completely as to cover every contingency. This means that disputes may arise in any
ongoing economic relationship. When the parties have made specific investments that ...
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[CITATION] Discrimination in labor markets

O Ashenfelter, A Rees… - 1973 - press.princeton.edu
... Google full text of our books: Discrimination in Labor Markets Orley Ashenfelter and Albert Rees.
Cloth | 1974 | This edition is out of print | ISBN: 9780691041704 196 pp. Subject Area: Economics.
Prices subject to change without notice. File created: 11/6/2011. ...
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Macroeconomic Analysis and Microeconomic Analyses of Labor Supply

OC Ashenfelter - 1984 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MACROECONOMIC ANALYSES AID
MICROEC ONOMIC ANALYSES OF LABOR SUPPLY Orley Ashen felter Working
Paper No. 1500 NATIONAL BUREAU OF 2ONO14IC RESEARCH ...
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Why have unemployment rates in Canada and the US diverged?

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OC Ashenfelter… - 1986 - nber.org
... WHY HAVE UNEMPLOYMENT RATES IN CANADA AND THE US DIVERGED? Orley Ashenfelter
David Card ... Real wage rates have been essentially uncorrelated with employ- ment movements
within each country and between the two countries. Orley Ashenfelter David Card ...
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[CITATION] Estimating labor supply functions

O Ashenfelter… - Working Papers, 1972 - ideas.repec.org
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view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links below. In case of
further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site ...
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Union relative wage effects: new evidence and a survey of their implications for wage inflation

O Ashenfelter - 1976 - Citeseer
Abstract This paper will be presented at the Conference on Econometric Contributions to
Public Policy sponsored by the International Economic Association in Urbino, Italy on
September 2-8, 1976. Its preparation was sponsored by the Council on Wage and Price ...
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The economics of discrimination: Economists enter the courtroom

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O Ashenfelter… - The American Economic Review, 1987 - JSTOR
Gary Becker's Ph. D. dissertation, subsequently published in 1957 as The Economics of
Discrimination, is all the more remarkable when considered against the political and cultural
background of the 1950's. Becker's book was written and published in a period when ...
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[CITATION] Collecting panel data in developing countries: does it make sense?

O Ashenfelter, A Deaton… - 1986 - getcited.org
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Changes in labor market discrimination over time

O Ashenfelter - Journal of Human Resources, 1970 - JSTOR
This article offers some evidence on what effect changes in discriminatory practices in labor
markets may have had on the relative earnings of black workers. Interest focuses on
estimating the extent of any change in the relative earnings of nonwhite workers which ...
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Predicting the Quality of an Unborn Grange*

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RP Byron… - Economic Record, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
* We are grateful to Lynda Bourke for research assistance, to Stewart Langton of Langton's
Fine Wine Auctions for his interest and for providing, collecting and processing the price
data, to Mike Farmilo (Chief Wine-maker [Red] at Penfolds) and John Gladstones for their ...
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The effect of mergers on consumer prices: evidence from five selected case studies

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O Ashenfelter… - 2008 - nber.org
In this paper we propose a method to evaluate the effectiveness of US horizontal merger
policy and apply it to the study of five recent consumer product mergers. We selected the
mergers from those that, from the public record, seemed to be most problematic for the ...
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Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life: Problems and Prospects*

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O Ashenfelter - The Economic Journal, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Tradeoffs between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks are summarised in the value of a
statistical life (VSL), a measure that is widely used for the evaluation of public policies in
medicine, the environment, and transportation safety. This article demonstrates the ...
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Do unemployment insurance recipients actively seek work? Randomized trials in four US states

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O Ashenfelter, D Ashmore… - 1999 - nber.org
In the last two decades, US policies have moved from the use of incentives to the use of
sanctions to promote work effort in social programs. Surprisingly, except for anecdotes, there
is very little systematic evidence of the extent to which sanctions applied to the abusive ...
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The demand for labor in the public sector

O Ashenfelter - 1980 - Citeseer
Abstract this paper could not have been written. Orley Ashenfe! ter and Ronald Ehrenberg
Increased interest in the determinants of the demand for labor in the state and local sector
has followed on the heel of the dramatic growth in employment by governments in this ...
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Estimating the value of a statistical life: The importance of omitted variables and publication bias

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O Ashenfelter… - 2004 - nber.org
In this paper we show that omitted variables and publication bias lead to severely biased
estimates of the value of a statistical life. Although our empirical results are obtained in the
context of a study of choices about road safety, we suspect that the same issues plague ...
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Art auctions: a survey of empirical studies

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O Ashenfelter… - 2002 - nber.org
This paper contains a review of the burgeoning research that has been designed to shed
light on how the art auction system actually works and what it indicates about price
formation. First, we find that in recent years returns on art assets appear to be little different ...
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[CITATION] Discrimination and trade unions

O Ashenfelter - Working Papers, 1971 - econpapers.repec.org
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Discrimination and Trade Unions. Orley Ashenfelter (). No 405, Working Papers from Princeton
University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section. ...
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[BOOK] The effect of manpower training on earnings: Preliminary results

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O Ashenfelter - 1975 - harris.princeton.edu
The stakes involved in a judgment on the economic success of postschooling classroom
training are large. On the one hand, through fiscal year 1973 we had invested some $2.5
billion in this social program through federal obligations for institutional training under the ...
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[CITATION] The demand for expert opinion: Bordeaux wine

O Ashenfelter… - Les Cahiers de l'OCVE, 2000
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Art auctions

O Ashenfelter… - Handbook on the Economics of Art and Culture, 2006 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper contains a new review of the research of the last decade that has been
designed to shed light on how the art auction system works, what it indicates about price
formation, and how well it performs. We begin with a short description of the mechanics of ...
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[BOOK] Statistics and econometrics: methods and applications

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O Ashenfelter, PB Levine… - 2003 - Wiley Online Library
In a proverbial Indian story (Buddhist Udana 68–69), a few blind people touched different
parts of an elephant: the trunk, tusk, leg, tail, etc., and interpreted them as different
animate/inanimate objects following their own perceptions, ideas or experiences. We, the ...
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[CITATION] Identifying the firm-specific cost pass-through rate

O Ashenfelter, D Ashmore, JB Baker… - 1998 - US FTC, Bureau of Economics
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Predicting the Quality and Prices of Bordeaux Wine*

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O Ashenfelter - The Economic Journal, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Bordeaux wines have been made in much the same way for centuries. This article shows
that the variability in the quality and prices of Bordeaux vintages is predicted by the weather
that created the grapes. The price equation provides a measure of the real rate of return to ...
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[CITATION] The economics of training

OC Ashenfelter… - 1996 - Edward Elgar
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[PDF] Cross-country comparisons of wage rates: The Big Mac index

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O Ashenfelter… - Unpublished paper, available at http://economics …, 2001 - crei.cat
Abstract Comparisons of wage rates across countries have become key ingredients in
evaluating theories of international trade, the role of trade in exacerbating wage inequality,
and the role of capitalist reforms in economic transition. Despite the importance of cross- ...
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Evaluating the role of Brown v. Board of Education in school equalization, desegregation, and the income of African Americans

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O Ashenfelter, WJ Collins… - American Law and Economics …, 2006 - rpproxy.iii.com
Abstract The public profile of the Brown v. Board of Education decision tends to overshadow
the well-established fact that racial disparities in school resources in the South began
narrowing 20 years before the Brown decision and that school desegregation did not ...
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[CITATION] Handbook of labor economics

J Heckman, R LaLonde… - Handbook of …, 1999 - Handbook of Labor Economics
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Lawyers as Agents of the Devil in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game

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O Ashenfelter… - 1993 - nber.org
The goal of this paper is to explore the possibility that the costs and benefits of legal
representation are structured so that each individual party seeks legal representation in the
hope of exploiting the other party, while knowing full well that failing to do so will open up ...
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[CITATION] The labor supply response of wage earners

O Ashenfelter - Welfare in rural areas, 1978
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Anatomy of the Rise and Fall of a Price-Fixing Conspiracy: Auctions at Sotheby's and Christie's

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O Ashenfelter… - Journal of Competition Law and …, 2005 - Oxford Univ Press
Abstract The Sotheby's–Christie's price-fixing scandal that ended in the public trial of Alfred
Taubman provides a unique window on a number of key economic and antitrust policy
issues. The trial provided detailed evidence as to how the price-fixing worked, and the ...
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Nonparametric estimates of the labor-supply effects of negative income tax programs

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O Ashenfelter… - Journal of Labor Economics, 1990 - JSTOR
This article reports nonparametric estimates of the effect of labor-supply behavior on the
payments to families enrolled in the Seattle/Denver Income Maintenance Experiment. The
randomized assignment of families to the treatment groups in this experiment was ...
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[CITATION] Unemployment and compensating wage differentials

JM Abowd… - Working Papers, 1979 - econpapers.repec.org
By John M. Abowd and Orley Ashenfelter; Unemployment and Compensating Wage Differentials.
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The case for evaluating training programs with randomized trials

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O Ashenfelter - Economics of Education Review, 1987 - Elsevier
Abstract This brief paper presents the reasons why I have come to conclude that the
evaluation of the economic benefits of training programs will be greatly enhanced by the use
of classical experimental methods where control and experimental groups are selected by ...
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Incomes policy and wage differentials

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O Ashenfelter… - Economica, 1983 - JSTOR
Periodic incomes policies have by now become a feature of most Western economies. It has
also become clear that there is a trade-off between the features of an incomes policy that
make it initially acceptable and the features that make it ultimately effective. For example, ...
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Negotiator Behavior and the Occurrence of Dispute

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O Ashenfelter… - The American Economic Review, 1990 - JSTOR
It is generally recognized that gains from cooperation are sometimes lost because
negotiating parties fail to reach agreement. Table 1 shows dispute rates that have been
reported in a wide variety of negotiating situations. The estimates suggest that between 10 ...
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[CITATION] Arbitration and the negotiation process

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O Ashenfelter - American Economic Review, 1987
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[CITATION] Longitudinal labor market data: sources, uses, and limitations

O Ashenfelter… - Working Papers, 1982 - ideas.repec.org
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[CITATION] Handbook of Labor Economics

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Generating evidence to guide merger enforcement

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Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES GENERATING EVIDENCE TO GUIDE
MERGER ENFORCEMENT Orley C. Ashenfelter Daniel Hosken Matthew Weinberg
Working Paper 14798 http://www.nber.org/papers/w14798 ...
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Labour supply, commodity demand and the allocation of time: Correction

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M Abbott… - The Review of Economic …, 1979 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Systematic errors in three of the underlying price series resulted in significant errors in the
computation of the estimates of Equations (16) and (19) in our recent paper, Abbott and
Ashenfelter (1976). Since these estimates have subsequently been used by several ...
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Econometric Methods in Staples

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O Ashenfelter, D Ashmore, J Baker, S Gleason… - 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Econometrics played a major role in the investigation and litigation of the Federal
Trade Commission's successful challenge to the proposed merger between two office
superstore chains, Staples and Office Depot. Our goal in writing this essay is to describe ...
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Empirical methods in merger analysis: Econometric analysis of pricing in FTC v. Staples

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O Ashenfelter, D Ashmore, JB Baker… - … Journal of the …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract In 1997, the US Federal Trade Commission challenged the proposed merger of two
office supply superstores, Staples and Office Depot in US District Court. Both the
government and merging parties presented econometric studies examining the merger's ...
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[CITATION] Testing the Efficiency of Employment Contracts

O Ashenfelter… - Working Papers, 1985 - ideas.repec.org
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[CITATION] Some statistical difficulties in using dummy dependent variables

O Ashenfelter - WG Bowen and TA Finegan, The Economics of Labor …, 1969
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Some evidence on the private returns to graduate education

O Ashenfelter… - Southern Economic Journal, 1969 - JSTOR
The objective of this study is to present estimates of the private rates of return to various
levels and types (" products") of graduate education in the arts and sciences. Although the
seminal work of TW Schultz and Gary Becker spawned a good deal of research on the" ...
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Wage changes and the frequency of wage settlements

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O Ashenfelter… - Economica, 1975 - JSTOR
The practical importance for public policy of the determinants of aggregate money wage
changes has spawned an extensive empirical literature on this subject in the last decade or
so. Since little of empirical significance seems to have been settled by this research, it is ...
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[CITATION] Handbook of labor economics

J Angrist, A Krueger, O Ashenfelter… - Ashenfelter & D. Card (ed.), 1999
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[CITATION] The pitfalls in judging arbitrator impartiality by win-loss tallies under final-offer arbitration

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[CITATION] Estimating the Effect of Training on Earnings

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... EconPapers has moved to http://EconPapers.repec.org! Please update your bookmarks. Estimating
the Effect of Training on Earnings. Orley Ashenfelter (). No 473, Working Papers from Princeton
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Using hedonic models of solar radiation and weather to assess the economic effect of climate change: the case of Mosel valley vineyards

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O Ashenfelter… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010 - MIT Press
Abstract In this paper we use two alternative methods to assess the effects of climate change
on the quality of wines from the vineyards of the Mosel Valley in Germany. In the first,
structural approach we use a physical model of solar radiation to measure the amount of ...
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J Abowd… - The Collected Essays of Orley …, 1997 - dataspace.princeton.edu
Abstract This paper models the competitive equilibriu wage rate when employment offers
vary according to the amount of anticipated unemployment and unemployment risk. The
competitive wage reflects a compensating differential which includes a certainty ...
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French Wine and the US Boycott of 2003: Does Politics Really Affect Commerce?

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O Ashenfelter, S Ciccarella… - 2007 - nber.org
In early 2003, France actively tried to thwart the plans of the Bush administration to build
international support for a war to depose Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein. In response, calls in
the United States for a boycott of French products, wine in particular, rebounded through ...
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Samuelson's Economics at Fifty: Remarks on the Occasion of the Anniversary of Publication

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PA Samuelson, HW McGraw… - The Journal of …, 1999 - Heldref Publications
Dr. Samuel Johnson went to see the revival of his earlier play, Irene, which had been a
failure. When Boswell asked him what he thought of the performance, Johnson replied
sadly,“I had thought it better.” My experience was a happier one in reviewing today's ...
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[CITATION] Art Auctions: Prices Indices and Sale Rates for Impressionist and Contemporary Pictures

J Abowd… - 1988 - mimeo, econ. dept., Princeton U
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[CITATION] Handbook of labor economics

RJ Willis, O Ashenfelter… - Handbook of labor …, 1986 - Elsevier Science Publishers
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Unemployment as a constraint on labour market behaviour

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O Ashenfelter - … economic analysis. The Association of University …, 1978 - books.google.com
Even though the memory of the Treat Depression of the thirties still lingers in the background
of professional discussions of unemployment, by now it has nearly faded away. The most
influential modern work on the theory of unemployment1 has treated it as a form of choice ...
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Measuring the Effect of Arbitration on Wage Level: The Case of Police Officers

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O Ashenfelter… - Indus. & Lab. Rel. Rev., 2000 - HeinOnline
The authors empirically evaluate how the provision of an arbitration statute affects police
officers' wages by comparing wage levels across political jurisdictions and over time using a
sample of states. Two complementary data sources are used: panel data for the years ...
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Labor Market Monopsony

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OC Ashenfelter, H Farber… - Journal of Labor Economics, 2010 - JSTOR
... Journal of Labor Economics , Vol. 28, No. 2, Modern Models of Monopsony in Labor Markets:
Tests and Estimates. Papers from a Conference Held in Sundance, Utah, November 2008,
Organized by Orley Ashenfelter, Henry Farber, and Michael Ransom. Alan Manning, Editor. ...
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[CITATION] Minority employment patterns, 1966

O Ashenfelter - Princeton, NJ: Industrial Relations Section, 1966
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Strategic bargaining behavior, self-serving biases, and the role of expert agents: an empirical study of final-offer arbitration

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In this paper we study the complete evolution of a final-offer arbitration system used in New
Jersey with data we have systematically collected over the 18-year life of the program.
Covering the wages of police officers and firefighters, this system provides virtually a ...
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