The Role of Conventional Retirement Age in Retirement Decisions. (2006)
Following Wave I HRS respondents for six waves (12 years) so that their actual retirement can be observed shows that the actual retirement hazard is substantially higher at (and around) the age that...
Robert Gazzale, Charles Brown, David Cooper, Julie Cullen, Jacob Goeree, ...
This study clarifies the conditions under which learning in games produces convergence to Nash equilibria in practice. We experimentally investigate the role of supermodularity, which is closely...
Early Retirement Windows (2003)
What happens to the employment status and earnings of workers who accept earlyretirement windows? Using data from the first six waves of HRS (1992-2002) I find that those who accepted window offers...
Early Retirement Windows (2002)
An early retirement window is an offer, by an employer, of a special incentive to retire at a particular time, beyond that provided by the firm's pension plan. While such windows have attracted...
Inequality and Mobility: Trends in Wage Growth for Young Adults (1998)
Annette Bernhardt, Martina Morris, Mark Handcock, Marc Scott, Robert Mare, Charles Brown, ...
After two decades of rising wage inequality, it is important to examine the impact of these changes on lifetime wage growth. This paper compares the intragenerational mobility of two NLS cohorts of...
Physical Activity and Risk of Breast Cancer in the Framingham Heart Study (1994)
Dorgan, Joanne F., Brown, Charles, Barrett, Michael, Splansky, Greta L., Kreger, Bemard E., D'Agostino, Ralph B., ...
The authors analyzed data from the Framingham Heart Study to evaluate the association between physical activity and breast cancer risk. Physical activity was as certained by a physician-administered...
Re: Lung Cancer: Another Consequence of a High-Fat Diet? (1994)
ALAVANJA, MICHAEL C. R., SWANSON, CHRISTINE, BROWN, CHARLES, BROWNSON, ROSS
Trends in the Covariance Structure of Earnings in the U.S.: (1993)
Robert A. Moffitt, Peter Gottschalk, Charles Brown, James Heckman
Costas Meghir, Gary Solon, and the members of seminars and workshops at several universities for comments on this version of the paper, as well as Thomas MaCurdy for comments on an earlier version....
Heeringa, Steven, Jackson, John, Connor, Judith, Brown, Charles
This paper addresses the usefulness of a longitudinal data file constructed from records on employers from the Michigan Employment Security Commission. We describe the main features of the data file,...
The quality dimension in army retention (1990)
Despite the relatively "egalitarian" (little pay for performance) structure of military compensation, those who do better on tests of proficiency in their military occupation are likely to re-enlist...
TESTS FOR HOMOGENEITY OF EFFECT IN AN EPIDEMIOLOGIC INVESTIGATION (1977)
MANTEL, NATHAN, BROWN, CHARLES, BYAR, DAVID P.
Mantel, N. (Biostatistics Center, George Washington U., Bethesda, MD 20014), C. Brown and D. P. Byar. Tests for homogeneity of effect in an epldemlologic investigation. Am J Epidemiol 106:125–129,...
Informing the People / Ch. Brown. (1957)
El autor plantea la posibilidad de modificar y mejorar los procesos periodísticos, especialmente en la etapa de redacción, a partir de los descubrimientos desarrollados por científicos sociales...
Estimating the Determinants of Employee Performance
Employers often wish to know whether the factors used in selecting employees do in fact allow them to choose the most qualified applicants. Because the performance of those not chosen is not...
The Federal Attack on Labor Market Discrimination: The Mouse that Roared?
The purpose of this paper is to review available evidence on the impact of federal equal employment opportunity programs. While Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Executive Order 11246...
Previous analyses of postwar black/white earnings ratios have found a more rapid rate of increase in the period since 1964 than before. The reason for this acceleration is unresolved. One view is...
Time-Series Evidence of the Effect of the Minimum Wage on Youth Employment and Unemployment
Charles Brown, Curtis Gilroy, Andrew Kohen
While previous time series studies have quite consistently found that the minimum wage reduces teenage employment, the extent of this reduction is much less certain. Moreover, because few previous...
Military Enlistments: What Can We Learn From Geographic Variation?
This paper analyzes the determinants of the supply of enlistees to the U.S. Army, using quarterly data from 1975:4 through 1982:3 for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. For high-quality...
The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Unemployment: A Survey
Charles Brown, Curtis Gilroy, Andrew Kohen
In this paper, we survey theoretical models of the effect of the minimum wage and, in somewhat greater detail, evidence of its effect on employment and unemployment. Our discussion of the theory...
Standard-Rate Wage Setting, Labor Quality, and Unions
"Standard rate" wage policies, under which all workers in a particular job receive the same wage, are common for blue-collar workers, especially those covered by collective bargaining agreements and...
Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System
Charles Brown, Wallace E. Oates
This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model with utility interdependence, the paper presents some theoretical results on how levels of poor...
John Bound, Charles Brown, Greg J. Duncan, Willard L Rodgers
This paper reports evidence on the error properties of survey reports of labor market variables such as earnings and work hours. Our primary data source is the PSID Validation Study, a two-wave panel...
Charles Brown, James L. Medoff
We consider six explanations for the positive relationship between employer size and wages -- large employers (1) hire higher quality workers; (2) offer inferior working conditions; (3) make more use...
The Impact of Firm Acquisitions on Labor
Charles Brown, James L. Medoff
In this paper, we investigate the changes in wages and employment following a firm's involvement in an acquisition, compared with firms not involved in acquisitions. Contrary to the tenor of popular...
The traditional research on method of pay and wages compares those paid piece rates with those paid by the hour, and finds (as predicted by the theory) that those paid piece rates earn more. In this...
The Quality Dimension in Army Retention
While there has been a great deal of research on the characteristics of those who enter the U.S. Armed Forces, there has been little work which asks whether those who re-enlist are those who were...
Firms' Choice of Method of Pay
Three types of pay-setting methods are piece rates (pay mechanically linked to output), merit pay (pay based on less formal judgments by one's supervisor), and standard rates (pay based on one's job...
Sex-Based Differences in School Content and the Male/Female Wage Gap
In high school and in college, men and women take significantly different courses. Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and the National Longitudinal Study Class of 1972, we...
Charles Brown, James L. Medoff
In this paper, we analyze the relationship between how long an employer has been in business (firm age) and wages. Using data from special supplements to the Survey Research Center's monthly Survey...
The Effect of Ignoring Heteroscedasticity on Estimates of the Tobit Model
We consider the sensitivity of the Tobit estimator to heteroscedasticity. Our single independent variable is a dummy variable whose coefficient is a difference between group means, and the error...
Charles Brown, James L. Medoff
We analyze the relationship between how long an employer has been in business (firm age) and wages. Using data from special supplements to the Survey Research Center's monthly Survey of Consumers, we...
Sex-Based Differences in School Content and the Male-Female Wage Gap.
Brown, Charles, Corcoran, Mary
In high school and college, men and women take significantly different courses. Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and the National Longitudinal Study class of 1972, the...
The Employer Size-Wage Effect.
The authors consider six explanations for the positive relationship between employer size and wages: large employers (1) hire higher-quality workers, (2) offer inferior working conditions, (3) make...
An early retirement window is an offer, by an employer, of a special incentive to retire at a particular time, beyond that provided by the firm's pension plan. While such windows have attracted...
What happens to the employment status and earnings of workers who accept earlyretirement windows? Using data from the first six waves of HRS (1992-2002) I find that those who accepted window offers...
The Role of Conventional Retirement Age in Retirement Decisions
Following Wave I HRS respondents for six waves (12 years) so that their actual retirement can be observed shows that the actual retirement hazard is substantially higher at (and around) the age that...