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School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE

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School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2011

Rashmi Barua and Kevin Lang

Singapore Management University - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of Late

NBER Working Paper No. w15236

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2022

Rashmi Barua and Kevin Lang

Singapore Management University - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 26 Jan 2004

Joshua D. Angrist and Kevin Lang

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w4087

Number of pages: 82 Posted: 29 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2022

William T. Dickens and Kevin Lang

Northeastern University - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales

NBER Working Paper No. w19950

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2022

Timothy Bond and Kevin Lang

Purdue University - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Evaluating Student Outcomes at For-Profit Colleges

NBER Working Paper No. w18201

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2022

Kevin Lang and Russell Weinstein

Boston University - Department of Economics and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - School of Labor & Employment Relations

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A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory

NBER Working Paper No. w1314

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2022

William T. Dickens and Kevin Lang

Northeastern University - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Are Efficiency Wages Efficient?

NBER Working Paper No. w1935

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 13 Dec 2000 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2022

William T. Dickens, Lawrence F. Katz and Kevin Lang

Northeastern University - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston&Apos;S Metco Program

NBER Working Paper No. w9263

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 11 Oct 2002 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2021

Joshua D. Angrist and Kevin Lang

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Discrimination and Worker Evaluation

NBER Working Paper No. w21612

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 06 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2022

Costas Cavounidis and Kevin Lang

Boston University and Boston University - Department of Economics

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The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing

NBER Working Paper No. w12485

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 31 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2022

Adam B. Ashcraft and Kevin Lang

Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Boston University - Department of Economics

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The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales: Empirical Results

NBER Working Paper No. w24853

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 01 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 30 May 2021

Timothy Bond and Kevin Lang

Purdue University - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Education and Labor-Market Discrimination

NBER Working Paper No. w12257

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 01 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2022

Kevin Lang and Michael Manove

Boston University - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Employee Crime, Monitoring, and the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis

NBER Working Paper No. w2356

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2021

William T. Dickens, Lawrence F. Katz, Kevin Lang and Lawrence H. Summers

Northeastern University - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics and Harvard University

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Neoclassical and Sociological Perspectives on Segmented Labor Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w2127

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 15 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2022

Kevin Lang and William T. Dickens

Boston University - Department of Economics and Northeastern University - Department of Economics

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The Promise and Pitfalls of Differences-in-Differences: Reflections on ‘16 and Pregnant’ and Other Applications

NBER Working Paper No. w24857

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 01 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2021

Ariella Kahn-Lang and Kevin Lang

Harvard University and Boston University - Department of Economics

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The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration

NBER Working Paper No. w19182

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 29 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2021

Olesya Baker and Kevin Lang

Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics

NBER Working Paper No. w17450

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 23 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2022

Kevin Lang and Jee-Yeon Lehmann

Boston University - Department of Economics and University of Houston

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Testing Dual Labor Market Theory: a Reconsideration of the Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w1670

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2022

William T. Dickens and Kevin Lang

Northeastern University - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Labor Market Segmentation, Wage Dispersion and Unemployment

NBER Working Paper No. w4073

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 Jan 2001 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2022

Kevin Lang and William T. Dickens

Boston University - Department of Economics and Northeastern University - Department of Economics

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An Analysis of the Nature of Unemployment in Sri Lanka

NBER Working Paper No. w3777

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 28 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2022

Kevin Lang and William T. Dickens

Boston University - Department of Economics and Northeastern University - Department of Economics

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Language-Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition

NBER Working Paper No. w7737

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 12 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2022

Eli Berman, Kevin Lang and Erez Siniver

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics and College of Management (Israel)

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Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore

NBER Working Paper No. w20911

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2022

Huailu Li, Kevin Lang and Kaiwen Leong

Fudan University, School of Economics, Boston University - Department of Economics and Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

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A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets

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A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets

UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2012ECON06

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 13 Jan 2012

Gautam Bose and Kevin Lang

UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w17623

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2022

Gautam Bose and Kevin Lang

UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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The Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear: Theory and Implications

NBER Working Paper No. w9911

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Aug 2003 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2022

Kevin Lang and Sumon Majumdar

Boston University - Department of Economics and Queen's University - Department of Economics

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A Goodness of Fit Test of Dual Labor Market Theory

NBER Working Paper No. w2350

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 28 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2021

William T. Dickens and Kevin Lang

Northeastern University - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel

NBER Working Paper No. w12464

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 23 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2022

Kevin Lang and Erez Siniver

Boston University - Department of Economics and College of Management (Israel)

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Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks

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Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13360

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 15 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021

Kevin Lang, Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li and Haibo Xu

Boston University - Department of Economics, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Fudan University, School of Economics and Tongji University

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Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks

NBER Working Paper No. w26400

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2022

Kevin Lang, Kaiwen Leong, Huailu Li and Haibo Xu

Boston University - Department of Economics, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Fudan University, School of Economics and Fudan University

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Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased

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Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10413

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 19 Dec 2016

Rania Gihleb and Kevin Lang

Boston University - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased

NBER Working Paper No. w22927

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2022

Rania Gihleb and Kevin Lang

Boston University - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants

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Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9942

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Jun 2016

Deepti Goel and Kevin Lang

School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants

NBER Working Paper No. w15186

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2021

Deepti Goel and Kevin Lang

School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Does the Human-Capital/Educational-Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy?

NBER Working Paper No. w4052

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2022

Kevin Lang

Boston University - Department of Economics

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The Effect of the Payroll Tax on Earnings: A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination

NBER Working Paper No. w9537

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Mar 2003 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2022

Kevin Lang

Boston University - Department of Economics

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Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium

NBER Working Paper No. w1883

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 05 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2022

William T. Dickens and Kevin Lang

Northeastern University - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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The Effects of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates

NBER Working Paper No. w2647

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 08 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2021

Shalumit Kahn and Kevin Lang

Independent and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Why Was There Mandatory Retirement? Or the Impossibility of Efficient Bonding Contracts

NBER Working Paper No. w2199

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Jan 2002 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2022

Kevin Lang

Boston University - Department of Economics

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Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency vs. Specific-Capital

NBER Working Paper No. w2238

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2022

Shulamit Kahn and Kevin Lang

Boston University - Department of Finance & Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Why is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel

NBER Working Paper No. w16730

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 31 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2022

Kevin Lang and Erez Siniver

Boston University - Department of Economics and College of Management (Israel)

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The Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear: Theory and Policy Implications

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 01 Nov 2004

Kevin Lang and Sumon Majumdar

Boston University - Department of Economics and Queen's University - Department of Economics

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Bilateral Search as an Explanation for Labor Market Segmentation and Other Anomalies

NBER Working Paper No. w4461

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2022

Kevin Lang and William T. Dickens

Boston University - Department of Economics and Northeastern University - Department of Economics

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The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results

NBER Working Paper No. w17960

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 31 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2022

Timothy Bond and Kevin Lang

affiliation not provided to SSRN and Boston University - Department of Economics

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Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage

NBER Working Paper No. w13066

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2022

Kevin Lang and Hong Kang

Boston University - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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The Black-White Education-Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7

NBER Working Paper No. w19243

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 19 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2022

Timothy Bond and Kevin Lang

Purdue University - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics

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The Wage Effects of Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Certifications: Better Data, Somewhat Different Results

NBER Working Paper No. w19135

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2022

Kevin Lang and Russell Weinstein

Boston University - Department of Economics and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - School of Labor & Employment Relations

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The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers

NBER Working Paper No. w26319

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 30 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2021

Costas Cavounidis, Kevin Lang and Russell Weinstein

Boston University, Boston University - Department of Economics and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - School of Labor & Employment Relations

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The Determinants of Teachers' Occupational Choice

NBER Working Paper No. w24883

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2021

Kevin Lang and Maria Dolores Palacios

Boston University - Department of Economics and Boston University

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Ben-Porath Meets Lazear: Lifetime Skill Investment and Occupation Choice with Multiple Skills

NBER Working Paper No. w23367

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 01 May 2017 Last Revised: 08 May 2022

Costas Cavounidis and Kevin Lang

Boston University and Boston University - Department of Economics

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The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe V Wade

NBER Working Paper No. w19627

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 09 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2022

Kevin Lang and Russell Weinstein

Boston University - Department of Economics and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - School of Labor & Employment Relations

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A Test of Adverse Selection in the Market for Experienced Workers

NBER Working Paper No. w22387

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 11 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2022

Kevin Lang and Russell Weinstein

Boston University - Department of Economics and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - School of Labor & Employment Relations

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The Evolution of Skill Use within and between Jobs

NBER Working Paper No. w29302

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 28 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021

Costas Cavounidis, Vittoria Dicandia, Kevin Lang and Raghav Malhotra

Boston University, Boston University, Boston University - Department of Economics and Warwick University

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Effort and Wages: Evidence from the Payroll Tax

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, Vol. 53, Issue 1, pp. 108-139, 2020

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 06 Oct 2020

Kevin Lang

Boston University - Department of Economics

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Kevin Lang

Boston University - Department of Economics

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