The book takes a broad view of the subject matter of acroeconomics. A substantial portion of
the book is devoted to economic growth, and separate chapters are devoted to the natural …

In this paper, we use indirect inference to estimate a joint model of earnings, employment,
job changes, wage rates, and work hours over a career. We use the model to address a …

We investigate the consequences of imperfect factor market development for farm efficiency
in North China. We estimate the extent to which an inverse relationship in farm productivity …

This paper documents a little-noticed feature of US labor markets—very large variation in the
labor supply of married women across cities. We focus on cross-city differences in …

I revisit the intertemporal labor supply framework, using exogenous variations in daily
weather to see how time at work varies with rain. In my model, a rainy day is associated with …

This paper uses a revealed preference approach applied to administrative data from
Washington to document and characterize work-hour constraints. Workers have limited …

I use a field experiment to estimate the wage elasticity of employment in the day labor
market in rural Malawi. Once a week for 12 consecutive weeks, I make job offers for a …

We consider the following problem. There is a structural equation of interest that contains an
explanatory variable that theory predicts is endogenous. There are one or more instrumental …

While health care policies are frequently signed into law well before they are implemented,
such lags are ignored in most empirical work. This paper demonstrates the importance of …

This paper presents a model that provides conditions under which a causal interpretation
can be given to the association between childhood parental employment and subsequent …