Labor and Human Resournces
Boarding a Sinking Ship? An Investigation of Job Applications to Distressed Firms
We use novel data from a leading online job search platform to examine the impact of corporate distress on firms’ ability to attract job applicants. Survey responses suggest that job [...]
Why do some firms give stock options to all employees? An empirical examination of alternative theories.
Many firms issue stock options to all employees. We consider three potential economic justifications for this practice: providing incentives to employees, inducing employees to sort, and helping firms retain employees. We [...]
Personnel economics: Hiring and incentives
Many firms issue stock options to all employees. We consider three potential economic justifications for this practice: providing incentives to employees, inducing employees to sort, and helping firms retain employees. We [...]
Consumer Protection in Auto Lending
Jen Brown and Mark Jansen , 2020. In a study that [...]
Crossing the District Line: Border Mismatch and Targeted Redistribution
Allison Stashko, 2020. Using a probabilistic voting model in which parties [...]
Assessment Caps and the Racial Assessment Gap
Troup Howard and Carlos Avenancio-Leon, 2022. We show that legislative caps [...]
Do Police Maximize Arrests or Minimize Crime? Evidence from Racial Profiling in the U.S.
Allison Stashko, 2020. In a study that aims to identify the [...]
The Consequences of Student Loan Credit Expansions: Evidence from Three Decades of Default Cycles
Adam Looney and Constantine Yannelis, 2021. This paper studies the link [...]
Probability-Based Estimates of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Seroprevalence and Detection Fraction, Utah, United States
Adam Looney, Matthew Samore, Steven Alder, Andrew T. Pavia, Nathan [...]