An empirical analysis of the daily labor supply of stadium vendors

GS Oettinger - Journal of political Economy, 1999 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper analyzes the daily labor supply behavior of food and beverage vendors at a
single stadium over an entire baseball season. This labor market is attractive for the study of …

Statistical discrimination and the early career evolution of the black-white wage gap

GS Oettinger - Journal of Labor Economics, 1996 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article develops and tests a simple dynamic model of statistical discrimination. The
model improves on earlier static models both by allowing ex ante uncertainty about worker …

Does high school employment affect high school academic performance?

GS Oettinger - ILR Review, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper analyzes how school year employment affected high school academic
performance among a sample of young people surveyed between 1979 and 1983. Regular …

The incidence and wage consequences of home-based work in the United States, 1980–2000

GS Oettinger - Journal of Human Resources, 2011 - jhr.uwpress.org
Oettinger is an associate professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin. He …
October 2011 through September 2014 from Gerald S. Oettinger, Department of Economics, …

The effects of sex education on teen sexual activity and teen pregnancy

GS Oettinger - Journal of Political Economy, 1999 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper empirically examines the relationship between enrollment is sex education and
subsequent sexual behavior for US teenagers during the 1970's. The estimates indicate that …

Sibling similarity in high school graduation outcomes: Causal interdependency or unobserved heterogeneity?

GS Oettinger - Southern economic journal, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
This paper uses data on age‐adjacent sibling pairs from the National Longitudinal Survey of
Youth to test for causal interdependencies between the high school graduation outcomes of …

The effect of nonlinear incentives on performance: evidence from “Econ 101”

GS Oettinger - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2002 - direct.mit.edu
This paper analyzes both theoretically and empirically how an absolute grading standard that
allows only a small number of distinct grades affects student course performance outcomes…

Estimates of the return to schooling and ability: evidence from sibling data

SG Bronars, GS Oettinger - Labour Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
We use sibling data on wages, schooling, and aptitude test scores from the 1979 National
Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) to obtain OLS, family fixed effects, and fixed effects …

Do piece rates influence effort choices? Evidence from stadium vendors

GS Oettinger - Economics Letters, 2001 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the daily sales performance of stadium vendors over an entire baseball
season. The vendors were paid a pure commission on their sales, but the commission rate …

Seasonal and sectoral patterns in youth employment

GS Oettinger - Monthly Lab. Rev., 2000 - HeinOnline
… This article examines the seasonal and Gerald S. Oettlnger is on sectoral patterns in youth …
In the article, "Comparing earnings inequality using two major surveys," by Mark S. Handcock, …