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Where Are They Now? Tracking the Ph.D. Class of 1997
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
We report early career outcomes of economics Ph.D.s by tracking the U.S. class of 1996-97. We examine employment outcomes, work activities, salaries, and graduates' attitudes toward their jobs. By 2003, all of the respondents ...
Simon Rottenberg and Baseball, Then and Now: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Fifty years ago the JPE published Simon Rottenberg's "The Baseball Players' Labor Market", the first professional journal article in sports economics. In this retrospective we review some of his insights and analyses with ...
Measuring the Impact of Intervention on Exchange Market Pressure
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Abstract: In this article, we introduce an index of ex ante exchange market pressure (EMP) that can be used as a benchmark against which to measure the effectiveness of sterilized intervention. Ex ante EMP is the change ...
Social Choice: Recent Developments
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Abstract: In the past quarter century, there has been a dramatic shift of focus in social choice theory, with structured sets of alternatives and restricted domains of the sort encountered in economic problems coming to ...
Attrition in Economics Ph.D. Programs
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Information about 586 individuals who matriculated into 27 economics Ph.D. programs in Fall 2002 is used to estimate first and second year attrition rates. After two years, 26.5 percent of the initial cohort had left, ...
Head Start Participation and Childhood Obesity
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Childhood obesity is a significant public health problem that also has economic consequences. Medical research suggests that nutritional interventions at a young age can influence nutritional behavior and reduce childhood ...
John Charles Harsanyi
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Abstract: This article provides an overview of the main events in the life of John Harsanyi and a summary of his research on decision-theoretic foundations for utilitarianism, cooperative bargaining theory, games of ...
Search, Bargaining, and Agency in the Market for Legal Services
(Vanderbilt University, 2011)
We show that, in the context of the market for a professional service, adverse selection problems can sufficiently exacerbate moral hazard considerations so that even though all agents are risk neutral, welfare can be ...
Social Conflict and the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem
(Vanderbilt University, 2011)
This paper presents a new theory of trade policy-making based on the possibility of social conflict, and determines the conditions under which it will apply. In a setting where property rights are poorly enforced, the paper ...
Economic Analysis of Products Liability: Theory
(Vanderbilt University, 2011)
This chapter provides a survey of much of the recent theoretical analysis of products liability. We start by describing an idealized model and providing the specific economic assumptions which underpin it. Later sections ...