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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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Prevailing Wage Laws and Construction Labor Markets
TL;DR: This paper found that the relative wages of construction workers decline slightly after the repeal of a state prevailing wage law and that the small overall impact of law repeal masks substantial differences in outcomes for different groups of construction employees Repeal is associated with a sizeable reduction in the union wage premium and a significant narrowing of the black/nonblack wage differential for construction workers.
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Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice
Peter Bergman,Raj Chetty,Stefanie DeLuca,Nathaniel Hendren,Lawrence F. Katz,Christopher Palmer +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a randomized controlled trial with housing voucher recipients in Seattle and King County was conducted, where the authors provided services to reduce barriers to moving to high-upward mobility neighborhoods: customized search assistance, landlord engagement, and short-term financial assistance.
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Long-Term Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Families: Evidence from Moving to Opportunity
Jens Ludwig,Jens Ludwig,Jens Ludwig,Greg J. Duncan,Greg J. Duncan,Lisa A. Gennetian,Lawrence F. Katz,Lawrence F. Katz,Ronald C. Kessler,Jeffrey R. Kling,Jeffrey R. Kling,Lisa Sanbonmatsu +11 more
TL;DR: The authors examined long-term neighborhood effects on low-income families using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized housing-mobility experiment, which offered some public-housing families but not others the chance to move to less-disadvantaged neighborhoods.
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The Race between Education and Technology: The Evolution of U.S. Educational Wage Differentials, 1890 to 2005
Claudia Goldin,Lawrence F. Katz +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that strong secular growth in the relative demand for more educated workers combined with fluctuations in the growth of relative skill supplies go far to explain the long-run evolution of U.S. educational wage differentials.