Amanda Pallais’s research while affiliated with The National Bureau of Economic Research and other places

... Workers also may be more productive at home if they are less tired because they have eliminated a long and stressful commute or are able to sleep later in the morning, they can better manage their work and life responsibilities, or they can work without interruptions in a quiet space. However, they may be less productive if they need to work closely with teams, the nature of their work involves customer contact, they suffer from the social isolation of working from home, or they miss out on on-the-job training (Emanuel et al. 2023;Pabilonia and Vernon 2023a). In addition to potential positive worker productivity effects, employers may also benefit from this remote revolution if they can reduce the cost of their office space and/or turnover costs, given workers are more satisfied with their jobs when working remotely (Abril and Harwell 2021;Bloom et al. 2021;Bloom et al. 2024;Gupta et al. 2022;White 2019). ...

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Remote work, wages, and hours worked in the United States

... Meanwhile, there is research that presents empirical evidence showing a positive impact on labour income in graduates who have received educational funding during their degree courses, such as Vélez et al. (2018), Scott-Clayton and Zafar (2019), Daniels and Smythe (2019) and Froidevaux et al. (2020). On the other hand, there are authors who did not discover a positive impact, among which we find Yang (2011), Mayer et al. (2016, Gurantz (2019), Bettinger et al. (2019), Bernasek and Long (2021), Angrist et al. (2022) and Rattini (2023) in their long-term study. Bettinger et al. (2019), in their research on California, considered the long-term effects of funding by studying the outcomes of the educational process over 14 years. ...

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Employment and salaries of university graduates: impact evaluation of a financial aid programme by means of propensity score matching

... TSLC is funded by the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation (STBF) and includes a five-year scholarship that covers the approximate cost of tuition and fees. Studies of the impact of TSLC suggest that the financial support that students receive increases their enrollment, persistence, and six-year degree completion relative to students who do not receive financial support (Angrist et al., 2014(Angrist et al., , 2016(Angrist et al., , 2020 and that the TSLC program positively impacts students' psychosocial outcomes relative to students who received only a scholarship (Melguizo et al., 2019). However, less is known about how specific aspects of this program might contribute to these outcomes. ...

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Identity-Conscious Strategies to Engage At-Promise Students in a Learning Community: Shared Courses in a Comprehensive College Transition Program

... Indeed, working time flexibility is likely to undermine work-life balance when employers do not grant enough working time autonomy to their employees while having high organisation-oriented working time requirements such as changing working time schedule on short notice to accommodate production needs (Backhaus 2022;Wöhrmann, Dilchert, and Michel 2021). Thus, there are likely to be significant trade-offs between employer-friendly and employee-friendly flexibility, with large economic and social costs at stake (Kossek and Thompson 2016;Mas and Pallais 2020). ...

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Does the Technological Transformation of Firms Go Along With More Employee Control Over Working Time? Empirical Findings From an EU-Wide Combined Dataset

... 11 For example, Pagán [2013] finds that "disability steals time:" disabled individuals devote less time to market work (especially females), and more time to domestic work such as cooking, cleaning and child care, to tertiary activities such as personal care and medical treatment. On wage measures, Mas and Pallais [2019] rightly argue that the market wage is only an approximation of the opportunity cost of employed workers but not of unemployed workers' opportunity cost which is difficult to measure since it reflects activities that happen outside the market. ...

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Care work and the demographic composition of households: two Asian cases

... Ageing and digital shopping degrees now being taught exclusively online [3]. Moreover, public services are also increasingly being delivered online [4]. ...

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Ageing and digital shopping: Measurement and validation of an innovative framework

... Consequently, the expected coefficient associated with C k is positive, signifying that individuals demand additional wage premiums, or compensating wage differentials, to accept jobs with less than optimal working conditions. This also reflects the economic weight individuals place on favorable working conditions, evidenced by their capacity to tolerate specific compromises in the presence of perceived deficiencies of working conditions, subsequently seeking compensation through wage premium (Mas and Pallais, 2017). Coefficient of C k is also dubbed the "implicit/ shadow price." ...

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Compensating teachers serving rural schools: evidence from a developing region in southern China

... We propose here that women directors' marital status is an individual trait enacting self-fulfilling gender stereotypes, which can push women sitting on boards toward enhancing their firms' environmental performances. Indeed, research shows that although women with top careers are generally less inclined to marry (Friedman & Greenhaus, 2000), when they do, they are subject to discrimination and conforming expectations of nurturing and communal traits and behavior (Bursztyn et al., 2017;Dessy & Djebbari, 2010). For instance, while men are socially praised when they work to support their families, positive perceptions of women emerge when they are willing to leave their jobs to support their husbands or care for their families (Eagly, 1987). ...

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“If you like it Green, put a ring on it”: Married women directors and environmental performance in family and non-family businesses

... The experimental literature has also documented how exposure to negative stereotypes affects effort, self-confidence, and productivity (Carlana, 2019;Bordalo et al., 2016;Glover et al., 2017). Aspirations are strongly correlated to expectations (La Ferrara, 2019;Carlana et al., 2022), and expectations have been shown to affect performance. ...

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Seeing Stereotypes

... This project also contributes to and extends several literatures in the political economy of the workplace. Broadly, our project extends existing work in economics and management that focus on preferences for types of work along economic dimensions such as compensation, flexibility, and benefits (Beglo and Gorges 2018;Eriksson and Kristensen 2014;Flory, Leibbrandt, and List 2015;Freeman and Rogers 2006;Frymer 2005;Kostiuk 1990; Mas and Pallais 2017;Wiswall and Zafar 2018). Building on Freeman and Rogers (2006) and Kochan et al. (2019), we argue that workers have preferences over the workplace's economic and political fundamentals (Anderson 2017;Dahl 1986;Eidlin and Uetricht 2018;Gourevitch 2014). ...

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What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy