Larry Katz

Publication List Details

Period

1962 - 2008

Number

32

Co-Authors

Media Bias Sendhil Mullainathan and Andrei Shleifer* (MIT and Harvard University) (2007)

Simon Johnson, Larry Katz, Sendhil Mullainathan, Andrei Shleifer

There are two different types of media bias. One bias, which we refer to as ideology, reflects a news outlet's desire to affect reader opinions in a particular direction. The second bias, which...

Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables (2007)

Stacy Berg Dale, Alan B. Krueger, Marianne Bertr, ...

colleagues at the Mellon foundation for helpful discussions. We alone are responsible for any errors in computation or interpretation that may remain despite their helpful advice. This paper makes...

*This material has been presented at many US and European universities. We thank especially (2007)

David G. Blanchflower, Andrew J. Oswald, Peter Sanfey, Truman Bewley, Olivier Blanchard, Stephen Bond, ...

The paper suggests a new test for rent-sharing in the U.S. labor market. Using an unbalanced panel from the manufacturing sector, it shows that a rise in a sector's profitability leads after...

questions and providing data. We have also benefited from helpful comments from (2007)

Alan B. Krueger, Pei Zhu, David Myers, Joshua Angrist, David Card, ...

This paper reexamines data from the New York City school choice program, the largest and best implemented private school scholarship experiment yet conducted. In the experiment, low-income public...

Ruggedness: The blessing of bad geography in Africa (2007)

Nathan Nunn, Diego Puga, Edward Glaeser, Larry Katz, Jim Robinson

Abstract: There is controversy about whether geography matters mainly because of its contemporaneous impact on economic outcomes or because of its interaction with historical events. Looking at...

Does Wage Rank Affect Employees' Wellbeing (2006)

Jonathan Gardner, Watson Wyatt Llp, Andrew Oswald, Jing Qian, ...

How do human beings make wage comparisons? This paper provides empirical support for an approach suggested by the psychologist Allen Parducci. The paper combines an experimental study with an...

06381 Abstracts Collection -- Computer Science in Sports (2006)

Baca, Arnold, Katz, Larry, Perl, Jürgen, Spaniol, Otto

From 17.09.06 to 20.09.06, the Dagstuhl Seminar 06381 ``Computer Science in Sport'' was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several...

Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries (2006)

Nick Bloom, John Van Reenen, George Baker, Eric Bartelsman, Oliver Hart, James Hines, ...

Centre for Economic Performance and the LSE We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US and Europe (France, Germany and...

Abstract (2005)

Daniel Hojman, Adam Szeidl, Sanjeev Goyal, Kenneth Judd, Larry Katz, Markus Mobius, ...

Many economic and social networks share two common organizing features: (1) a core-periphery structure; (2) positive correlation between network centrality and payo¤s. In this paper, we build a...

CEO overconfidence and corporate investment (2005)

Ulrike Malmendier, Geoffrey Tate, Larry Katz, Tom Knox, David Laibson, Andrei Shleifer

We argue that managerial overconfidence can account for corporate investment distortions. Overconfident managers overestimate the returns to their investment projects and view external funds as...

Consumption Commitments, Unemployment Durations, and Local Risk Aversion,”NBER Working Paper #10211 (2004)

Raj Chetty, Jerry Green, Jon Gruber, Jens Hilscher, Emir Kamenica, David Laibson, ...

Studies of risk preference have empirically established two regularities that are inconsistent with the canonical expected utility model: (1) risk aversion over small gambles greatly exceeds risk...

Valuing New Goods in a Model with Complementarities: Online Newspapers,” working paper (2004)

Matthew Gentzkow, Karen Clay, Liran Einav, Gautam Gowrisankaran, Larry Katz, Julie Mortimer, ...

Many important economic questions hinge on the extent to which new goods either crowd out or complement consumption of existing products. Recent methods for studying new goods rule out...

The Impact of Technological Change on older Workers: evidence from data on computer use (2003)

Leora Friedberg, Leora Friedberg, João Miguel Ejarque, Larry Katz, Jim Poterba

This paper explores the impact on older workers of new technologies that change skill requirements. Older workers, with older skills and less skills than prime-age workers, will suffer in comparison....

Employment Consequences of Restrictive Permanent Contracts: Evidence from Spanish Labor Market Reforms (2003)

Adriana Kugler, Juan F. Jimeno, Documento De Trabajo, Joe Altonji, Josh Angrist, Manolo Arellano, ...

Temporary employment contracts allowing unrestricted dismissals were introduced in Spain in 1984 and quickly came to account for most new jobs. In 1997, however, the Spanish government attempted to...

JEL Code: J31 (2003)

Pedro Carneiro, Edward Vytlacil, Sebastian Gay, Michael Greenstone, Larry Katz, Steve Levitt, ...

This research was supported by NSF 97-09-873, NSF-SES-0099195 and NICHD-40-4043-000-85-261. Carneiro benefited from support from Fundaçao Ciência e Tecnologia and Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian. We...

The Multimedia Database Initiative: The Health/Education Cluster Project - Year 2 (2001)

Jennett, Penny, Katz, Larry, Hunter, Bill, Hawes, Dave

The project represents the collaborative merging of knowledge, expertise, and resources across faculties, and has provided those involved with experience in building and using learning objects and...

The Multimedia Database Initiative: The Health/Education Cluster Project - Year 2 (2001)

Jennett, Penny, Katz, Larry, Hunter, Bill, Hawes, Dave

The project represents the collaborative merging of knowledge, expertise, and resources across faculties, and has provided those involved with experience in building and using learning objects and...

More Equal but Less Mobile? - Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the US. (1998)

Aldo Rustichini, Andrea Ichino, Daniele Checchi, Ronald Dore, Richard Freeman, Larry Katz, ...

A state school system should be expected to reduce income inequality and to make intergenerational mobility easier. It is therefore somewhat surprising to observe that Italy, in comparison to the US,...

A Concept Map Based Approach to the Shared Workspace (1993)

Robert Kremer, Robert Kremer, Graham Birtwistle, Larry Katz

This thesis considers concept mapping as a basis for sharing computer workspaces among collaborating partners. The hypermedia paradigm is used both for linkages between concept maps, and for...