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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 For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators? NBER Working Paper No. 17710.
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The Health Effects Of Expanding The Earned Income Tax Credit: Results From New York City
TL;DR: The intervention had a modest positive effect on employment and earnings, particularly among women, and had no effect on health-related quality of life for the overall sample, but women realized significant improvements.
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The Most Egalitarian of All Professions: Pharmacy and the Evolution of a Family-Friendly Occupation
TL;DR: The authors explored the gender earnings gap, the penalty to part-time work, labor force persistence, and the demographics of pharmacists relative to other college graduates, concluding that the substantial entrance of women into the profession was associated with an increase in their earnings relative to male pharmacists.
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Why Do Firms Monitor Workers
TL;DR: In his seminal analysis of the economics of crime, Gary Becker (1968) pointed out that the cost of achieving any given degree of deterrence is minimized by combining an infinitesimal probability of detection and an arbitrarily large punishment.
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Mass Secondary Schooling and the State: The Role of State Compulsion in the High School Movement
Claudia Goldin,Lawrence F. Katz +1 more
TL;DR: In the three decades from 1910 to 1940, the fraction of U.S. youths enrolled in public and private secondary schools increased from 18 to 71 percent and the fraction graduating soared from 9 to 51 percent as mentioned in this paper.