Higher Education
American Higher Education in Transition, Articles and Chapters (2012)
[Excerpt] In public higher education, tuition increases in recent decades have barely offset a long-run...
Financing and Restructuring Doctoral Education in the Future, Working Papers (2010)
[Excerpt] I will argue today that a combination of short- and longer-run economic and political...
Rethinking the Professoriate, Working Papers (2010)
[Excerpt] The American higher education system faces tremendous pressure to enhance access and graduation rates....
Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education (with Douglas A. Webber), Working Papers (2010)
[Excerpt] Rates of tuition increases in both private and public higher education that continually exceed...
Do Trustees and Administrators Matter? Diversifying the Faculty Across Gender Lines (with George H. Jakubson, Mirinda L. Martin, Joyce B. Main, and Thomas Eisenberg), Working Papers (2010)
Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American...
Other Education
Why Do School District Budget Referenda Fail? (with Randy A. Ehrenberg, Christopher L. Smith, and Liang Zhang), Working Papers (2003)
[Excerpt] Public elementary and secondary education is financed in many states at least partially at...
The Class Size Controversy (with Dominic J. Brewer, Adam Gamoran, and J. Douglas Willms), Working Papers (2001)
[Excerpt] When we ask whether class size matters for achievement, it is essential to ask...
Do Teachers’ Race, Gender, and Ethnicity Matter? Evidence From the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (with Daniel D. Goldhaber and Dominic J. Brewer), Articles and Chapters (1995)
Using data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS), the authors find that...
Role Models in Education (Symposium Introduction), Articles and Chapters (1995)
It is our hope that by assembling these papers in one place, the Review will...
Determinants of the Compensation and Mobility of School Superintendents (with Richard P. Chaykowski and Randy Ehrenberg), Articles and Chapters (1988)
Analyzing 197-83 panel data from more than 700 New York State school districts, the authors...
Social Insurance and Employment Standards
Unemployment Insurance, Duration of Unemployment, and Subsequent Wage Gain (with Ronald L. Oaxaca), Articles and Chapters (1976)
[Excerpt] In order to evaluate what the "optimal" level of UI benefits is, one must...
Public Sector Labor Markets, Nonprofits and Labor Market Regulation
Comparable Worth in the Public Sector (with Robert Smith), Articles and Chapters (1987)
[Excerpt] At the theoretical level, we conclude that the case for comparable worth rests on...
Public Sector Labor Markets (with Joshua L. Schwarz), Articles and Chapters (1983)
This paper provides a critical survey of the literature dealing with public sector labor markets....
Unions and Productivity in the Public Sector: A Study of Municipal Libraries (with Daniel R. Sherman and Joshua L. Schwarz), Articles and Chapters (1983)
This paper develops and illustrates the use of two methodologies to analyze the effect of...
The Effect of Unions on Productivity in the Public Sector: The Case of Municipal Libraries (with Joshua L. Schwarz), Articles and Chapters (1982)
[Excerpt] This paper represents our initial efforts at analyzing the effects of unions on productivity...
Estimating the Narcotic Effect of Public Sector Impasse Procedures (with Richard J. Butler), Articles and Chapters (1981)
This paper first describes in a relatively nontechnical fashion several econometric techniques that the authors...
Incentive Effects of Compensation Policies
Ivy League Athletic Performance: Do Brains Win? (with Dmitry Kotlyarenko), Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI) (2001)
[Excerpt] The Ivy League, which consists of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and...
Do Tournaments Have Incentive Effects? (with Michael L. Bognanno), Articles and Chapters (1990)
Much attention has been devoted to studying models of tournaments or situations in which an...
The Incentive Effects of Tournaments Revisited: Evidence From the European PGA Tour (with Michael L. Bognanno), Articles and Chapters (1990)
This analysis of data from the 1987 European Men's Professional Golf Association (PGA) Tour strongly...
Are School Superintendents Rewarded for “Performance”? (with Richard P. Chaykowski and Randy Ann Ehrenberg), Articles and Chapters (1988)
[Excerpt] This chapter presents analyses of the compensation and mobility of school superintendents in New...
Retirement Policies
Adverse Selection and Incentives in an Early Retirement Program (with Kenneth T. Whelan, Kevin F. Hallock, and Ronald L. Seeber), Articles and Chapters (2011)
We evaluate potential determinants of enrollment in an early retirement incentive program for non-tenure-track employees...
The Cornell Staff Retirement Incentive Program (with Kenneth T. Whelan, Kevin Hallock, and Ronald L. Seeber), Working Papers (2011)
We evaluate potential determinants of enrollment in an early retirement incentive program for non-tenure-track employees...
Faculty Retirement Policies after the End of Mandatory Retirement (with Michael J. Rizzo), Articles and Chapters (2001)
[Excerpt] The findings we report above have implications for both institutions and their faculty members....
Career's End: A Survey of Faculty Retirement Policies, Articles and Chapters (2001)
There are almost as many ways to retire from the academy as there are types...
Trustees and Faculty Retirement Policies, Working Papers (2001)
[Excerpt] Large numbers of faculty retirements in the years ahead will provide institutions with the...
Other Labor Market Analyses
Dissecting the Workforce and Workplace for Clinical Endocrinology, and the Work of Endocrinologists Early in Their Careers (with Claude Desjardins, Mark A. Bach, Anne R. Cappola, and Ellen W. Seely), Articles and Chapters (2011)
[Excerpt] No national mechanism is in place for an informed, penetrating, and systematic assessment of...
Analysis of the Workforce and Workplace for Rheumatology, and the Research Activities of Rheumatologists Early in Their Careers (with Claude Desjardins and E. William St. Clair), Working Papers (2010)
[Excerpt] The scope and scale of clinical research is unknown for any medical or surgical...
The Scope and Scale of Clinical Research Accomplished by Rheumatologists Early in Their Careers (with Claude Desjardins and E. William St. Clair M.D.), Working Papers (2009)
[Excerpt] The scope and scale of clinical research is unknown for any medical or surgical...
Faculty Employment and R&D Expenditures at Research Universities (with Liang Zhang), Working Papers (2006)
This study uses panel data to examine the relationship between faculty employment and external R&D...
Do Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Matter? (with Liang Zhang), Working Papers (2004)
During the last two decades, there has been a significant growth in the share of...
Unions and Collective Bargaining
Workers’ Rights: Rethinking Protective Labor Legislation, Articles and Chapters (1985)
This paper focuses on a few directions in which protective labor legislation might be expanded...
Cost-of-Living Adjustment Clauses in Union Contracts: A Summary of Results (with Leif Danziger and Gee San), Articles and Chapters (1983)
Our paper provides an explanation why cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) provisions and their characteristics vary widely...
Officer Performance and Compensation in Local Building Trades Unions, Articles and Chapters (1977)
[Excerpt] This paper presents estimates of the relationship between the performance and compensation of local...
Gender, Race and Ethnicity
Reducing Inequality in Higher Education: Where Do We Go From, Working Papers (2005)
[Excerpt] Differences in inequality in college enrollment rates across students from families of different socioeconomic...
The Future of Affirmative Action, Working Papers (2004)
This paper, presented at the conference on Now What: Affirmative Action and Higher Education in...
Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Athletics: Determinants of Title IX Compliance (with Deborah J. Anderson and John J. Cheslock), Working Papers (2004)
Using new data on intercollegiate athletes, this article shows that recent improvement in Title IX...
Do Historically Black Colleges and Universities Enhance the College Attendance of African American Youths? (with Donna S. Rothstein and Robert B. Olsen), Articles and Chapters (1999)
Recently, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have become the center of intense policy debates....
Do Historically Black Institutions of Higher Education Confer Unique Advantages on Black Students? An Initial Analysis (with Donna S. Rothstein), Articles and Chapters (1994)
[Excerpt] Despite the declining relative importance of HBIs in the production of black bachelor's degrees,...
Reviews
Going Broke by Degree: A Review Essay, Working Papers (2005)
In this review, the author posits that Richard Vedder’s book Going Broke By Degree: Why...
[Review of the Book Discrimination in Labor Markets], Articles and Chapters (1974)
[Excerpt] In sum, I consider Discrimination in Labor Markets a fine volume. Anyone who has...
Employment and Compensation
Why Do Field Differentials In Average Faculty Salaries Vary Across Universities? (with Marquise McGraw and Jesenka Mrdjenovic), Working Papers (2005)
Average faculty salaries at American colleges and universities differ widely across fields at American colleges...
Don't Blame Faculty for High Tuition: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2003-04, Articles and Chapters (2004)
[Excerpt] The bottom line is that although faculty and staff salary in-creases obviously contribute to...
A Brief Guide to the AAUP Salary Data, Articles and Chapters (2004)
[Excerpt] The AAUP data not only document faculty salary levels, but may also play a...
Collective Bargaining and Staff Salaries in American Colleges and Universities (with Daniel B. Klaff), Industrial & Labor Relations Review (2003)
Previous studies of union wage effects in higher education have examined faculty salaries, but not...
Unequal Progress: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession 2002-03, Articles and Chapters (2003)
[Excerpt] Most colleges and universities adopted budgets for the 2002-03 academic year in the spring...
Dislocated workers
Why WARN? The Impact of Recent Plant-Closing and Layoff Prenotification Legislation in the United States (with George H. Jakubson), Articles and Chapters (1993)
[Excerpt] WARN was passed only after a decade of strenuous debate. We can now look...
Advance Notice Provisions in Plant Closing Legislation: Do They Matter? (with George H. Jakubson), Articles and Chapters (1988)
This paper evaluates the cases for and against plant closing legislation. In spite of the...
Advance Notice Provisions in Plant Closing Legislation (with George Jakubson), Upjohn Institute Press (1988)
After summarizing the theoretical arguments for and against plant closing legislation, the authors present results...
Introduction [to Advance Notice Provisions in Plant Closing Legislation] (with George H. Jakubson), Upjohn Institute Press Book Chapters (1988)
Job security
Advance Notice Provisions in Plant Closing Legislation (with George Jakubson), Upjohn Institute Press (1988)
After summarizing the theoretical arguments for and against plant closing legislation, the authors present results...