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- Positions I hold.
- What I teach.
- My books
- Some policy-oriented writings
- Some recent working papers and publications
- Current evaluations
- Some cheap advice
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Positions I hold.
- Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
- Chair, Economic Analysis and Policy Group
- Chair of the Advisory Board, Center on Evaluation for Global Action
What I teach
- BA 24: Films about Work
- BA 154: Undergraduate Industrial Relations
- MBA 201B: Macroeconomics
- MBA 257-4: Business Strategies for Emerging Markets
- PHD 254C & 259: Industrial Relations
- PHD 297T: Research in Corporate Social Responsiblity
- PHD 297B:
Research and Theory in Business: Behavioral Science (with
My books
- How New is the
‘New’ Employment Contract? with Dale Belman,
- Evaluation of Carve-outs in Workers’ Compensation Programs in the California Construction Industry, with Cristian Echeverria, Frank Neuhauser, Richard Reuben, and Jeffrey S. Petersen. 2003, Upjohn Institute, Kalamazoo MI. (A related report is here, while an article-length version appeared in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 21, 3, 2002: 467-484.)
- The American Workplace: Skills, Pay and Employee Involvement, editor, with Casey Ichniowski, Craig Olson, and George Strauss, Cambridge University Press, 1999. [Buy this book.]
- Working in the
Twenty-First Century: Government Policies for Learning,
- Reinventing the Workplace:
How Business and Employees Can Both Win, Brookings Institution,
Some policy-oriented writings
· “Perspectives on Corporate Governance: Executive Compensation” Case in Point Concept Paper, Caseplace.org, May 2007.
· “Our opportunity to end poverty -- or fail to even try,” San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, May 21, 2006, Page E3.
- “The Wheels of Washington: Groupthink and Iraq,” San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, February 5, 2004, p. A23.
- “Editorial: Overt Discrimination by Multinational Firms,” Industrial Relations, 37, 2, April 1998, pp. 121-125.
- “Reinventing
the Workplace: How Government Can Help,”
- “Brave New Work” interview with Josh Clark, Mother Jones, July/Aug 1997.
- “Knowledge Transfer: Managerial Practices Underlying One Piece of the Learning Organization,” with April Gilbert, COHRE briefing paper, 1998.
Musings
These notes are to provoke thought, but are not complete, even lacking basics such as full citations.
- “Technologies and business models that should exist in poor nations.” 2006.
- “Speculations on the Macroeconomic Consequences of a Nuclear Attack on Moscow,” 2006.
Some recent working papers and publications
· Changes in Internal Labor Markets
· Wages
· Corporate social responsibility
Development Economics
- “Learning What Works – and What Doesn’t: Building Learning into the Global Aid Industry” March 2006.
- “Does
Trade Affect Child Health?” with
- “The Effect of Industrialization on Children’s Education – The Experience of Mexico,” with Susan Helper and Anne le Brun. (January 5, 2009). Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Working Paper Series. Paper iirwps-175-09.
Indonesian Families
- “Growth, Industrialization, and the Intergenerational Correlation of Advantage,” with Jon R. Jellema, Industrial Relations, 46, 1, January 2007: 130-170.
- "Financial
Constraints on Investment in an Emerging Market Crisis: An Empirical
Investigation of Foreign Ownership" with Garrick Blalock and
- “Parental
Death and Schooling,” [PDF] with
- “Are Investments in Daughters Lower When Daughters Move Away?” with Michael Kevane, World Development, 31, 6, June 2003: 1065-1084.
- “Do Microfinance Programs
Help Families Insure Consumption Against
Illness?” with
- “Is
Social Capital the Capital of the Poor? The Role of Family and
Community in Helping Insure Living Standards Against Health Shocks,”
with
- “The
Changing Status of Daughters in Indonesia” [PDF] with Michael Kevane.
- “Did
Industrialization Destroy Social Capital in Indonesia?” with
- “Does
Social Capital Promote Industrialization? Evidence from a Rapid Industrializer,” with
- “The
Effects of Industrialization on School Enrollment and Youth Employment in
Indonesia,” with
- “Losing
the Presence and Presents of Parents: How Parental Death Affects Children”
with
- “Gender Bias and The Indonesian Financial Crisis: Were Girls Hit Hardest?” With Minnie Ames. CIDER working paper C03-130. February 2003.
American Families
· “The Growing Importance of Family and Community: An Analysis of Changes in the Sibling Correlation in Earnings,” with Bhashkar Mazumder, Industrial Relations, 46, 1, January 2007: 7-21.
- “How Much of School Effects is Just Sorting? Identifying Causality in the National Education Longitudinal Survey,” with Gary Painter. Forthcoming, Economics of Education Review.
- “The Schooling Costs
of Teenage Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing: Analysis with a Within-School
Propensity Score Matching Estimator,” [PDF]. With Gary Painter. Review
of Economics and Statistics 85,
4, Nov. 2003: 884 – 900.
- “Family Structure and
Youths' Outcomes: Which Correlations are Causal?” with Gary Painter;
Journal of Human Resources, Vol.
35, No. 3 (Summer, 2000), pp. 524-549 JSTOR
- “Daddies, Devotion and Dollars: How Do They Matter for Youth?” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 63, 4, October 2004: 813 - 850.
American Workplaces
·
“Quality
Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management
Systems Affects Employees and Employers,” with
· “The
Acceptability of Layoffs and Pay Cuts: Comparing North America with
· “The New ‘Managerial Misclassification’ Challenge to Old Wage & Hour Law or What is Managerial Work?” with David Lewin, in Contemporary Issues in Employment Relations, David Lewin, ed., LERA Research Volume, Cornell University Press, 2006: 189-222.
· “The Effects of New Work Practices on Workers,” with Michael Handel, in America at Work, Edward E. Lawler III and James O’Toole, editors, Palgrave Macmillan, New York NY: 73-86. (An earlier version appeared in Industrial Relations, 43, 1, January 2004: 1-43.)
· “Sabotage! Survey Evidence on when it is Acceptable,” with Gary Charness. Center for Responsible Business Working paper 12, 2004.
· “Carving out Construction Employees from the Workers' Compensation System in California,” with Jeffrey S. Petersen, Cristian Echeverria, Frank Neuhauser, and Richard C. Reuben. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Vol. 21, No. 3, 467–483 (2002).
· “Employee Involvement and Pay at American Auto Suppliers,” with Susan Helper and Elliot Bendoly. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Volume 11, Number 2, Summer 2002, 329–377.
· Book Review of Manufacturing Advantage: Why High-Performance Work Systems Pay Off by Eileen Appelbaum; Thomas Bailey; Peter Berg; Arne L. Kalleberg Industrial and Labor Relations Review Vol. 55, No. 1 (Oct., 2001), pp. 175-176 JSTOR
· “Flexibility
versus Efficiency? A Case Study of Model Changeovers in the
· “Computer-Mediated Communication as Employee Voice: A Case Study” with Libby Bishop, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Jan., 1999), pp. 213-233 JSTOR
· “Ergonomics,
Employee Involvement, and the
· “Do Corporate Executives Have Rational Expectations?” The Journal of Business Vol. 66, No. 2 (Apr., 1993), pp. 271-293 JSTOR
· “Long-Term Supplier Relations and Product-Market Structure,” with Susan Helper, Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Oct., 1992), pp. 561-581 JSTOR
· “Just-Cause Employment Policies in the Presence of Worker Adverse Selection,” Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Jul., 1991), pp. 294-305 JSTOR
· “Just-Cause
Employment Policies When Unemployment Is a Worker Discipline Device” American Economic Review, Vol. 79, No. 4
(Sep., 1989), pp. 902-905 JSTOR
· "Reinventing
Disability Policy," working paper
65, [PDF]
Changes in Internal Labor Markets
- "Changes
in the Employment Contract."
with
- "Size, Skill and Sorting,” with Dale Belman. Labour 18 (4) 2004: 515–561
- "The Rise and Decline (?) of Internal Labor Markets" [PDF] with Erica Groshen.
- "Changes in Managerial Pay Structures 1986-1992," with K.C. O’Shaughnessey and Peter Cappelli, NBER Working paper 7730. (A later version appeared in Oxford Economic Review, 2000).
- “When
Are Layoffs Acceptable? Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment,” with
Wages
· “Intention
and Stochastic Outcomes: An Experimental
Study,” with
· “Fairness, Markets, and Ability to Pay: Evidence from Compensation Executives” American Economic Review, Vol. 83, No. 5 (Dec., 1993), pp. 1241-1259 JSTOR
· “Worth
Waiting For? Delayed Compensation, Training, and Turnover in the
· “What Do Wages Buy?” Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Sep., 1993), pp. 462-483 JSTOR
· “Can Wage Increases Pay For Themselves? Tests with a Productive Function,” The Economic Journal, Vol. 102, No. 414 (Sep., 1992), pp. 1102-1115 JSTOR
· “Product Quality and Pay Equity Between Lower-Level Employees and Top Management: An Investigation of Distributive Justice Theory,” with Douglas M. Cowherd, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 2, Special Issue: Process and Outcome: Perspectives on the Distribution of Rewards in Organizations (Jun., 1992), pp. 302-320 JSTOR
Effects of Diversity
·
“The
Effect of Diversity on Turnover: A Very Large Case Study,” with
·
“Do Birds of a Feather Shop Together? The
Effects of Employees’ Similarity with each Other and With Customers on
Performance,” with
- “Manager Race and the Race of New Hires,” with Laura
Giuliano and
- “Diversity, Discrimination
and Performance,” with Laura
Giuliano and
- “Manager Race and the Race of New Hires,” with Laura
Giuliano and
- “The Effects of Diversity on Business Performance: Report of the Diversity Research Network,” with Thomas Kochan and others, Human Resource Management Journal, 42, 1, Spring 2003: 3-22.
- “A Case Study of the Mortgage Application Process,” with Ken Temkin and Diane Levy, in Mortgage Lending Discrimination: A Review of the Evidence, Margery Austin Turner and Felicity Skidmore, eds, Urban Institute Press, Washington DC, 1999, pp. 137-160.
Corporate Social Responsibility
- “Breaking Down The Wall Of Codes: Evaluating Non-Financial Performance Measurement,” with Aaron Chatterji, California Management Review, winter 2006, pp. 29-51.
- “How Well Do Social Ratings Actually Measure Corporate Social Responsibility?” with Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel. Forthcoming at the Journal of Economics, Management and Strategy.
Current evaluations
- “Choose and Use: Understanding Consumer Choices concerning Safe Water Products in Kenya,” with Aquaya Institute and CARE-Kenya
§
A replication is ongoing with ICDDR,B in
- “A Rigorous Evaluation of Solar Ovens in Senegal,” with Solar Household Energy and Tostan
- “A Rigorous Evaluation of
Improved Cookstoves in
- “A Rigorous
Evaluation of Micro-Health Insurance in Cambodia,” with Domrei
Research and Consulting and The
§ An introduction is at: “Insuring Health: Testing The Effectiveness Of Micro-Health Insurance To Promote Economic Wellbeing For The Poor in Cambodia,”
- “Evaluating
the Hunger Project in Ghana” with
Some cheap advice
Cheap Advice
for Dissertation Writers, the Job Market, and New Faculty