Labour Economics

Arka Roy Chaudhuri, Indian Statistical Institute

Syllabus/Reading List

Labour Supply

Behrman, Jere R. “Labor markets in developing countries.” Handbook

of labor economics 3 (1999): 2859-2939.

Cahuc, Pierre Carcillo, Stephane Zylberberg, Andre (2014), Labor Economics

Evers, Michiel, Ruud De Mooij, and Daniel Van Vuuren. “The wage elasticity of labour
supply: a synthesis of empirical estimates.” De Economist 156.1 (2008): 25-43.

Imbens, Guido W., Donald B. Rubin, and Bruce I. Sacerdote. "Estimating the effect of
unearned income on labor earnings, savings, and consumption: Evidence from a survey
of lottery players." American Economic Review (2001): 778-794.

Stafford, Tess M. "What Do Fishermen Tell Us That Taxi Drivers Do Not? An Empirical
Investigation of Labor Supply." Journal of Labor Economics 33.3 Part 1 (2015): 683-710.

Lemieux, Thomas, and Kevin Milligan. "Incentive effects of social assistance: A

regression discontinuity approach." Journal of Econometrics 142.2 (2008): 807-828.

Killingsworth, M. and J. Heckman. (1986) “Female Labor Supply: A Survey,” Chap. 2 in

Ashenfelter, O.C. and R. Layard, editors, Handbook of Labor Economics, Vo.1, North-
Holland (1986), 103-204.

Carranza, Eliana. “Soil Endowments, Female Labor Force Participation, and the
Demographic Deficit of Women in India.” American Economic Journal: Applied
Economics 6.4 (2014): 197-225.

Afridi, Farzana, Taryn Dinkelman, and Kanika Mahajan. "Why are fewer married women
joining the work force in India? A decomposition analysis over two decades."
Forthcoming, Journal of Population Economics.

Labour Demand

Hamermesh, Daniel S., Labor Demand

Hamermesh, Daniel S. “The demand for labor in the long run.” Handbook of labor
economics 1 (1986): 429-471.

Clark, K. and R. Freeman. “How Elastic is the Demand for Labor?” Review of Economics
and Statistics, Vol. 62 (Nov. 1980) 509-20.

Hamermesh, D.S. and S.J. Trejo, “The Demand for Hours of Labor: Direct Evidence
from California,” Review of Economics & Statistics, Vol.82 (Feb. 2000) 38-47.

Immigration

Card, D., “The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market”, Industrial and
Labor Relations Review, Vol. 43 (January 1990) 245-257.

Friedberg, Rachel M. “The impact of mass migration on the Israeli labor market.”
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2001): 1373-1408.

Borjas, George J. “The Labor Demand Curve Is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the
Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118.4
(2003): 1335-1374.

J. Angrist and A. Kugler, “Protective or Counter-Productive? Labor Market Institutions

and the Effect of Immigration on EU Natives,” The Economic Journal, June 2003.

P. Cortes, “The Effect of Low-Skilled Immigration on US Prices: Evidence from CPI

Data,” JPE 2008, 381-422.

C.L. Smith, “The Impact of Low-skilled Immigration on the Youth Labor Market,”
Journal of Labor Economics 30.1, 2012, 55-89.

G. Ottaviano and G. Peri, “Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages,” J. of the

Eur. Ec.Assoc. 10 (2012), 152-197

G. Borjas, “The Wage Impact of the Marielitos: A Reappraisal,” NBER Working Paper
No. 21588 (September 2015).

Human Capital

Angrist, Joshua D., and Alan B. Krueger. “Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect
Schooling and Earnings?.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 106.4 (1991): 979-1014.

Card, David, and Thomas Lemieux, “Draft Avoidance and College Attendance: The
Unintended Legacy of the Vietnam War” American Economic Review, Vol. 91 (May
2001) 97-102.
Waldinger, Fabian. "Quality matters: The expulsion of professors and the consequences
for PhD student outcomes in Nazi Germany." Journal of Political Economy 118.4 (2010):
787-831.

Ashenfelter, O. and A. Krueger, “Estimates of the Economic Return to Schooling from a

New Sample of Twins,” American Economic Review, Vol. 84 (Dec., 1994) 1157-1173.

Lang, Kevin, and David Kropp. "Human capital versus sorting: the effects of compulsory
attendance laws." The Quarterly Journal of Economics (1986): 609-624.

Bedard, Kelly. "Human capital versus signaling models: university access and high
school dropouts." Journal of Political Economy 109.4 (2001): 749-775.

Tyler, John H., Richard J. Murnane, and John B. Willett. "Estimating the labor market
signaling value of the GED." Quarterly Journal of Economics(2000): 431-468.

Moretti, Enrico. "Estimating the social return to higher education: evidence from
longitudinal and repeated cross-sectional data." Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 121
(2004): 175-212.

Acemoglu, Daron and Joshua Angrist. "How Large are Human Capital Externalities?
Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws" NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2000,
2001, 9-59.

Lleras-Muney, Adriana “The Relationship Between Education and Adult Mortality in the
United States” Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 72 (Jan. 2005) 189-221.

Chou, Shin-Yi, et al. "Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural
Experiment in Taiwan." American economic journal. Applied economics, Vol. 2 (2010):
63.

McCrary, Justin, and Heather Royer. "The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and
Infant Health: Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth."
American Economic Review, Vol. 101 (2011): 158-95.

Clark, Damon, and Heather Royer. “The Effect of Education on Adult Mortality and
Health: Evidence from Britain,” American Economic Review, Vol. 103(2015): 2087-2120.

Milligan, Kevin, Enrico Moretti and Philip Oreopoulos. “Does Education Improve
Citizenship? Evidence from the U.S. and the U.K.” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 88
(August 2004) 1667-1695.

Lochner, Lance and Enrico Moretti. "The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from
Prison Inmates, Arrests and Self-Reports" American Economic Review, Vol. 94 (March
2004) 155-89.
Peer Effects

Sacerdote, B. (2014). Experimental and quasi-experimental analysis of peer effects: two

steps forward? Annu. Rev. Econ., 6(1):253{272.

Sacerdote, B. (2011). Peer effects in education: How might they work, how big are
they and how much do we know thus far. Handbook of the Economics of Education,
3(3):249-277.

Epple, D. and Romano, R. (2011). Peer effects in education: A survey of the theory and
evidence. Handbook of social economics, 1(11):1053-1163.

Angrist, J. D. and Lang, K. (2004). Does school integration generate peer effects?
Evidence from Boston’s Metco program. The American Economic Review, 94(5):1613-
1634.

Carrell, S. E., Fullerton, R. L., and West, J. E. (2009). Does your cohort matter?
Measuring peer effects in college achievement. Journal of Labor Economics, 27(3):439-
464.

Hoxby, C. (2000). Peer effects in the classroom: Learning from gender and race variation.
Working Paper 7867, National Bureau of Economic Research.

Imberman, S. A., Kugler, A. D., and Sacerdote, B. I. (2012). Katrina’s children: Evidence
on the structure of peer effects from hurricane evacuees. The American Economic
Review,102(5):2048-2082.

Jain, T. and Kapoor, M. (2015). The impact of study groups and roommates on academic
performance. Review of Economics and Statistics, 97(1):44-54.

Kling, J. R., Ludwig, J., and Katz, L. F. (2005). Neighborhood effects on crime for
female and male youth: Evidence from a randomized housing voucher experiment. The
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 120(1):87-130.

Lavy, V., Paserman, M. D., and Schlosser, A. (2012). Inside the black box of ability peer
effects: Evidence from variation in the proportion of low achievers in the classroom. The
Economic Journal, 122(559):208-237.

Lavy, V. and Schlosser, A. (2011). Mechanisms and impacts of gender peer effects at
school. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(2):1-33.

Manski, C. F. (1993). Identification of endogenous social effects: The reflection problem.

The review of economic studies, 60(3):531-542.
Sacerdote, B. (2001). Peer effects with random assignment: Results for Dartmouth
roommates. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 116(2):681-704.

Group Differences/Discrimination

Goldin, Claudia, and Cecilia Rouse. "Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of" Blind"
Auditions on Female Musicians." The American Economic Review. 90.4 (2000): 715-
741.

Bertrand, Marianne, and Sendhil Mullainathan. 2004. “Are Emily and Greg More
Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market
Discrimination.” American Economic Review, 94(4): 991-1013.

Bartoš, Vojtěch, Michal Bauer, Julie Chytilová, and Filip Matějka. "Attention
Discrimination: Theory and Field Experiments with Monitoring Information
Acquisition." The American Economic Review 106, no. 6 (2016): 1437-1475.

Goldin, G. , “The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women’s Employment, Education

and Family,” American Economic Review, Vol. 96 (May 2006) 1-21.

Siddique, Zahra. “Evidence on Caste Based Discrimination.” Labour Economics 18

(2011): S146-S159.

Banerjee, Abhijit, Marianne Bertrand, Saugato Datta, and Sendhil Mullainathan. “Labor
market discrimination in Delhi: Evidence from a field experiment.” Journal of
Comparative Economics 37, no. 1 (2009): 14-27.

Neal, D. and W. Johnson, “The Role of Premarket Factors in BlackWhite Wage

Differences,” Journal of Political Economy Vol. 104 (October 1996), 869-95.

Behavioural Labour

Dohmen, Thomas. "Behavioral labor economics: Advances and future

directions." Labour Economics 30 (2014): 71-85.

Camerer, Colin, Linda Babcock, George Loewenstein, and Richard Thaler. "Labor supply
of New York City cabdrivers: One day at a time." The Quarterly Journal of Economics
(1997): 407-441.

Farber, Henry S.. 2008. "Reference-Dependent Preferences and Labor Supply: The Case
of New York City Taxi Drivers." American Economic Review, 98(3): 1069-82.

Farber, Henry S. "Is tomorrow another day? The labor supply of New York City
cabdrivers." Journal of Political Economy 113.1 (2005): 46-82.
Card, David, Alexandre Mas, Enrico Moretti, and Emmanuel Saez. "Inequality at work:
The effect of peer salaries on job satisfaction." American Economic Review 102, no. 6
(2012): 2981-3003

Krueger, Alan B. and Alexandre Mas. "Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife
and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires." Journal of Political
Economy, Vol. 112 (April 2004) 253-289.

Niederle, Muriel, and Lise Vesterlund. "Do women shy away from competition? Do men
compete too much?." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 122, no. 3 (2007): 1067-1101.

Institutions and Labour Market

C. Brown, “Minimum Wages, Employment, and the Distribution of Income”, Chapter 32

in O.Ashenfelter and D. Card [eds.] Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 3, 1999.

Card, David and A. B. Krueger, “Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the
Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania,” American Economic Review, Vol.
84 (September 1994) 772-793.

Card, David and Alan B. Krueger, "A Reanalysis of the New Jersey Minimum Wage
Increase on the FastFood Industry with Representative Payroll Data", NBER Working
Paper no. 6386, January 1998.

Lee, David S. “Wage Inequality in the United States during the 1980s: Rising Dispersion or
Falling Minimum Wage?” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 114 (Aug. 1999), 977-1023.

R. Dickens, S. Machin and A. Manning, "The Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment:

Theory and Evidence From Britain", Journal of Labor Economics, 17[1], January 1999, 1-22.

Dube, Arindrajit, T. William Lester, and Michael Reich, “Minimum Wage Effects across
State Borders:Estimates using Contiguous Counties,” Review of Economics and
Statistics, Vol. 92( 2010): 945–64.

Neumark, David, JM Ian Salas, and William Wascher. "Revisiting the Minimum Wage—
Employment Debate: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?" Industrial & Labor
Relations Review 67, no. 3 suppl (2014): 608-648.

Dube, Arindrajit, Sylvia Allegretto, Michael Reich and Ben Zipperer, “Credible Research
Designs for Minimum Wage Studies: A Response to Neumark, Salas and Wascher”
forthcoming in Industrial and Labor Relations Review

DiNardo, John and David S. Lee, “Economic Impacts of New Unionization on Private
Sector Employers:1984-2001,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 119 (November
2004): 1383-1441.
Lee, David and Alexandre Mas, "Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence
from Financial Markets, 1961-1999," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127(1), 2012

Card, D. , T. Lemieux, and W.C. Riddell, “Unionization and Wage Inequality: A Comparative
Study of the U.S., UK and Canada,” Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 25 (Fall 2004) 519-59.

C. Hoxby, “How Teachers Unions Affect Education Production,” The Quarterly Journal
of Economics, August 1996.

Besley, Timothy, and Robin Burgess. “Can Labor Regulation Hinder Economic Performance?
Evidence from India.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2004): 91-134.

Hasan, Rana, Devashish Mitra, and Krishnarajapet V. Ramaswamy. “Trade reforms, labor
regulations, and labor-demand elasticities: Empirical evidence from India.” The Review
of Economics and Statistics 89.3 (2007): 466-481.

Wage Inequality

Katz, Lawrence, and David Autor “Changes in the Wage Structure and Earnings Inequality,”
Chap. 26 in Handbook of Labor Economics, ed. O. Ashenfelter and D. Card, Vol. 3A, North-
Holland (1999) 1463-1555.

Piketty, T. and E. Saez, “Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998,” Quarterly
Journal of Economics, Vol. 117 (February 2003) 1-39.

Gabaix, X., and A. Landier, “Why Has CEO Pay Increased So Much?” Quarterly Journal
of Economics, Vol. 123(February 2008) 49-100.

Lemieux, T., W. B. MacLeod and D. Parent, “Performance Pay and Wage Inequality,” Quarterly
Journal of Economics, Vol.124 (February 2009), 1-49

Katz, L. and K. Murphy, "Changes in Relative Wages, 1963-1987: Supply and Demand Factors,"
Quarterly Journal of Economics ,Vol. 107 (February 1992) 35-78.

Card, David, and Thomas Lemieux, "Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to
College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis," Quarterly Journal of Economics
Vol. 116 (May 2001) 705-46.

Krueger, A. “How Computers Have Changed the Wage Structure: Evidence from Micro
Data,”Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 108 (February 1993) 33-60.

Berman, E., J. Bound and Z. Griliches, “Changes in the Demand for Skilled Labor within U.S.
Manufacturing Industries: Evidence from the Annual Survey of Manufacturing.” Quarterly
Journal of Economics, Vol. 109 (May 1994): 367-97.
Lemieux, Thomas, “Increasing Residual Wage Inequality: Composition Effects, Noisy Data, or
Rising Demand for Skill?, American Economic Review, Vol. 96 (June 2006) 461-498.

Autor, D., L. Katz, and A. Krueger, "Computing Inequality: Have Computers Changed the Labor
Market?"Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 113 (November 1998), 1169-1213.

Card, D. and J. DiNardo, "Skill-Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality: Some
Problems and Puzzles," Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 20 (Oct 2002), 733-83.

Job Polarization

Autor, D., L. Katz, and M. Kearney, "The Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market," American
Economic Review , Vol. 96 (May 2006) 189-94.

Goos, Maarten and Alan Manning, “Lousy and lovely jobs: The rising polarization of work in
Britain," Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 89 (Feb. 2007) 118-133.

Autor, David and David Dorn (2013) “The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and Polarization in
the US Labor Market” American Economic Review, 103(5), 1553-1597

Jaimovich, Nir and Henry Siu (2013) “The Trend Is the Cycle: Job Polarization and Jobless
Recoveries,” NBER Working Papers 18334.

Dorn, David, Gordon Hanson, and Kaveh Majlesi. Importing political polarization? The
electoral consequences of rising trade exposure. No. w22637. National Bureau of
Economic Research, 2016.

Che, Yi, Yi Lu, Justin R. Pierce, Peter K. Schott, and Zhigang Tao. Does Trade
Liberalization with China Influence US Elections?. No. w22178. National Bureau of
Economic Research, 2016.