Earnings among workers with high levels of both Academic and Social Skills
are higher than they were 30 years ago,
relative to workers with only one type of skill or the other;
meanwhile, earnings among those who graduated high school with low levels of both types of skill
are falling even faster than observed in previous studies of workers with low cognitive skill.
"The Increasing Complementarity between Cognitive and Social Skills"
are higher than they were 30 years ago,
relative to workers with only one type of skill or the other;
meanwhile, earnings among those who graduated high school with low levels of both types of skill
are falling even faster than observed in previous studies of workers with low cognitive skill.
"The Increasing Complementarity between Cognitive and Social Skills"
Published Research
Empirical
Game Theory
- "Engineering Educational Opportunity: Impacts of 1970s and 1980s Policies to Increase the Share of Black College Graduates with Major in Engineering or Computer Science" in U.S. Engineering in a Global Economy, edited by Richard Freeman and Hal Salzman, National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago Press, 2018. http://www.nber.org/papers/w23703 (pdf)
- "The Increasing Complementarity between Cognitive and Social Skills" The Review of Economics and Statistics December 2014 96(5):849-86. (Pre-publication pdf)
- "Are There Racial Gaps in High School Leadership Opportunities? Do Academics Matter More?" The Review of Black Political Economy December 2014 41(4):393-409. (Pre-publication pdf)
- "The State Street Mile: Age and Gender Differences in Competition-Aversion in the Field" (with Rodney J. Garratt and Nick Johnson) Economic Inquiry January 2013, 51(1):806-815. (Earlier version pdf)
- "In Search of the Glass Ceiling: Gender and Earnings Growth among U.S. College Graduates in the 1990's" Industrial and Labor Relations Review October 2011 64(5):949-980. (Longer version pdf)
- "Changing Levels or Changing Slopes? The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999" (with Peter Kuhn) Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 63(3):384-406, 2010. (Earlier version pdf)
- "Leadership Skills and Wages" (with Peter Kuhn) Journal of Labor Economics, July 2005, 23(3):395-436. (Earlier version pdf)
- "The Relative Earnings of Black College Graduates, 1980-2001" (with Lois Joy) in Race, Work and Economic Opportunity in the 21st Century, edited by Marlene Kim, 2007, Routledge. (pdf)
- "Just Ask! Why Surveyed Women Did Not Pursue College Majors or Careers in Information Technology Fields" 23(2):pages 28-35,Summer 2004, IEEE Technology and Society.
- "Is Teaching More Girls More Math the Key to Higher Wages?" in Squaring Up: Policy Strategies to Raise Women's Incomes in the U.S., edited by Mary C. King: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
- "Mathematical College Majors and the Gender Gap in Wages." Industrial Relations 38(July):407-13, 1999.
- "The Working Poor--A Statistical Artifact?" (with Marlene Kim) Eastern Economic Journal 25(Spring):155-68, 1999 . (pdf)
- "Race and Gender Wage Gaps in the Market for Recent College Graduates." Industrial Relations 37(January):67-84, 1998.
Game Theory
- "Selective Acceptance and Inefficiency in a Two-Issue Complete Information Bargaining Game." Games and Economic Behavior 31(May):262-293, 2000. ["I agree that Weinberger's paper is quite long, but this is accounted for mostly by the long proofs and by truly interesting examples." Anonymous referee, Games and Economic Behavior]
Working Papers
- Where Did They All Go? A Closer Look at the Labor Markets for Preschool Teachers and Childcare Workers (Preliminary Draft)
- "Opting In and Out: Conditional and Unconditional Trends in Women's Transitions, and the Emergence of High-Paid Labor Force Reentry"
- "A Labor Economist's Perspective on Women in the Information Technology Workforce"
- " Is the Science and Engineering Workforce Drawn from the Far Upper Tail of the Math Ability Distribution?"
Grants and Fellowships
- "A Pilot Study of Career Dynamics in the Science and Engineering Workforce" Funded by the National Science Foundation Science of Science and Innovation Policy Program, Social, Behavioral and Economics Directorate, May 2012-April 2013, extended to November 2014.
- "Third Wave of a Longitudinal Study" Funded by the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics, January 2011-June 2012.
- "Impacts of Institution-Level Policies on Science and Engineering Education, Employment, Earnings and Innovation: A 'Natural' Experiment" Funded by the National Science Foundation Science of Science and Innovation Policy Program, Social, Behavioral and Economics Directorate, January 2009-December 2011, extended to June 2013.
- "High School Leadership Skills and Adult Labor Market Outcomes" with Peter Kuhn, Funded by the American Educational Research Association, April 2003-March 2005.
- "High School Leadership Activities and the Adult Earnings of Mexican-Americans: Evidence from Three Decades" with Peter Kuhn, Funded by the Linguistic Minority Research Institute, April 2003-March 2004.
- "Entry, Earnings Growth, and Retention in IT Careers: An Economic Study" with Peter Kuhn, Funded by the National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, with a contribution from the Social, Behavioral and Economics Directorate, September 2001-August 2004.
- "Non-Cognitive Skills and Labor Market Outcomes: An Exploratory Analysis" with Peter Kuhn, Funded by the Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research, April 2000-December 2001.
- "Economic Benefits and Barriers to Women who Choose Engineering College Majors" National Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, September 1999-June 2001.
- "Allocation of a Scarce Resource: High Math Aptitude Women in College and the Labor Market" American Educational Research Association Research Grant, May 1994-October 1996.
Longitudinal Studies
College and career choices study
The College and Career Choices Study is a longitudinal study of the factors considered by students when they make their college major and career choices, and of relationships between early choices and later outcomes, including occupation, earnings and time devoted to both family care and paid work.
Between 2002 and 2004, nearly 2000 students at 3 campuses agreed to participate in the College and Career Choices Study, and completed the base year survey. More than 1000 of these were resurveyed 2-3 years after their initial entry into the study. A third wave resurvey conducted in 2011-2012 received responses from nearly 700 of the original participants, 7-10 years after the base year survey. A fourth wave resurvey was conducted in 2014-2015 so that participants previously observed only 7 years after the base year could be followed for a full 10 years. Altogether, nearly 600 of the original participants were followed for 10 years.
Between 2002 and 2004, nearly 2000 students at 3 campuses agreed to participate in the College and Career Choices Study, and completed the base year survey. More than 1000 of these were resurveyed 2-3 years after their initial entry into the study. A third wave resurvey conducted in 2011-2012 received responses from nearly 700 of the original participants, 7-10 years after the base year survey. A fourth wave resurvey was conducted in 2014-2015 so that participants previously observed only 7 years after the base year could be followed for a full 10 years. Altogether, nearly 600 of the original participants were followed for 10 years.
Longitudinal study of u.s. scientists
The purpose of the study is to extend our knowledge about relationships between early experiences and later creative productivity within a population of individuals trained as scientists.
In July 2007, I mailed 3500 surveys to members of the American Physical Society. An astonishing number of very busy scientists responded.
Protecting confidentiality is an especially high priority in this research. I personally attached the address label to each survey envelope. No one else will know the link between individual personal information and confidential identification numbers.
In July 2007, I mailed 3500 surveys to members of the American Physical Society. An astonishing number of very busy scientists responded.
Protecting confidentiality is an especially high priority in this research. I personally attached the address label to each survey envelope. No one else will know the link between individual personal information and confidential identification numbers.
Short Surveys
Personality assessment trials
Personality is related to labor market outcomes including earnings and selection to occupations. In research studies, there are tradeoffs between shorter personality assessments that do not take much time to complete, and longer assessments that do a better job of capturing an individual's characteristics. In this study, I am simply trying to understand how the information collected in a very short 10-item assessment developed by Gosling, Rentfrow and Swann (2003) compares with responses to a slightly longer 16-item assessment that I developed for my longitudinal study. I would also like to learn more about how each of these compares with the 44-item Big Five Inventory (John and Srivastava, 1999).
References:
References:
- John, Oliver P., and Srivastava, Sanjay. (1999). The Big Five trait taxonomy: History, measurement, and theoretical perspectives. In L. A. Pervin, & O. P. John (Eds.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (pp.102–138). New York: Guilford Press.
- Gosling, Samuel D., Peter J. Rentfrow and William B. Swann (2003), " A very brief measure of the Big-Five personality domains" Journal of Research in Personality 37:504–528.