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Author: Katz, Lawrence F.
Resulting in 3 citations.
1. Gibbons, Robert
Katz, Lawrence F.
Lemieux, Thomas
Parent, Daniel
Comparative Advantage, Learning, and Sectoral Wage Determination
NBER Working Paper No. 8889, National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2002.
Also: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w8889
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Keyword(s): Endogeneity; Industrial Sector; Occupations; Skills; Wage Determination; Wage Differentials; Wages

We develop a model in which a worker
Bibliography Citation
Gibbons, Robert, Lawrence F. Katz, Thomas Lemieux and Daniel Parent. "Comparative Advantage, Learning, and Sectoral Wage Determination." NBER Working Paper No. 8889, National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2002.
2. Gibbons, Robert
Katz, Lawrence F.
Lemieux, Thomas
Parent, Daniel
Comparative Advantage, Learning, and Sectoral Wage Determination
Journal of Labor Economics 23,4 (October 2005): 681-723.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/491606
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Keyword(s): Endogeneity; Labor Economics; Modeling; Skilled Workers; Skills; Vocational Preparation; Wages

We develop a model in which a worker's skills determine the worker's current wage and sector. The market and the worker are initially uncertain about some of the worker's skills. Endogenous wage changes and sector mobility occur as labor market participants learn about these unobserved skills. We show how the model can be estimated using nonlinear instrumental variables techniques. We apply our methodology to study wages and allocation of workers across occupations and industries using individual-level panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We find that high-wage sectors employ high-skill workers and offer high returns to workers' skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Bibliography Citation
Gibbons, Robert, Lawrence F. Katz, Thomas Lemieux and Daniel Parent. "Comparative Advantage, Learning, and Sectoral Wage Determination." Journal of Labor Economics 23,4 (October 2005): 681-723.
3. Goldin, Claudia
Katz, Lawrence F.
The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions
Journal of Political Economy 110,4 (August 2002): 730-770.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/340778
Cohort(s): Young Women
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Keyword(s): Age at First Marriage; Career Patterns; College Graduates; Contraception; Employment; Marital Status; Marriage; Women

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially just after 1970, and the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women began to soar around the same year. We explore the relationship between these two changes and the diffusion of the birth control pill ("the pill") among young, unmarried college graduate women. Although the pill was approved in 1960 by the Food and Drug Administration and spread rapidly among married women, it did not diffuse among young, single women until the late 1960s after state law changes reduced the age of majority and extended "mature minor" decisions. We present both descriptive time series and formal econometric evidence that exploit cross-state and cross-cohort variation in pill availability to young, unmarried women, establishing the "power of the pill" in lowering the costs of long-duration professional education for women and raising the age at first marriage.
Bibliography Citation
Goldin, Claudia and Lawrence F. Katz. "The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions." Journal of Political Economy 110,4 (August 2002): 730-770.