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Lawrence F. Katz
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 319
Citations - 60116
Lawrence F. Katz is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wage & Unemployment. The author has an hindex of 104, co-authored 318 publications receiving 55969 citations. Previous affiliations of Lawrence F. Katz include Massachusetts Institute of Technology & National Bureau of Economic Research.
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The Company You Keep: The Effects of Family and Neighborhood on Disadvantaged Youths
TL;DR: The authors examined the effects of family background variables and neighborhood peers on the behaviors of inner-city youths in a tight labor market using data from the 1989 NBER survey of youths living in low-income Boston neighborhoods.
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The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap
TL;DR: This article used three longitudinal data sets of high school graduates in 1957, 1972, and 1992 to understand the narrowing of the gender gap in college and its reversal, finding that from 1972 to 1992 high school girls narrowed the gap with boys in math and science course taking and in achievement test scores.
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How much do immigration and trade affect labor market outcomes
TL;DR: The factor proportions approach is used to examine the contributions of immigration and trade to recent changes in U.S. educational wage differentials and attempt to provide a broader assessment of the impact of immigration on the incomes of U.s. natives.
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Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors
TL;DR: The authors studied the careers of MBAs from a top US business school to understand how career dynamics differ by gender, finding that although male and female MBAs have nearly identical earnings at the outset of their careers, their earnings soon diverge, with the male earnings advantage reaching almost 60 log points a decade after MBA completion.
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Moving to Opportunity in Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment
TL;DR: This paper examined the short-run impacts of a change in residential neighborhood on the well-being of low-income families, using evidence from a program in which eligibility for a housing voucher was determined by random lottery.