Christopher Stanton's research while affiliated with Harvard University and other places

... A number of recent papers follow Abadie et al. (2002) and use randomized trials; see e.g. Lee (2009), Attanasio et al. (2011; Grip and Sauermann (2012); Ba et al. (2017), Sandvik et al. (2021). The importance of the comparison group construction is illustrated by Leuven and Oosterbeek (2008). ...

... Col 6 adds separate cubic polynomials in experience and age, as well as a fifth degree polynomial in tenure (Sandvik et al., 2021). These specifications yield similar estimates: we find about 1.1% lower probability of exit per month for affected workers in the post-subway opening period. ...

... Put it differently, teaching occurred in 13.3% of groups (or 10 out of 75 groups) in the threshold condition but only in 2.0% of groups (or 1 out of 49 groups) in the No-threshold condition, suggesting that the need to reach the group threshold boosts the higher ability's incentive to teach. This pattern echoes Sandvik et al. (2020) who find that knowledge providers are more willing to share information when their own interests are linked to partners' joint out as well as Cooper, Saral, and Villeval (2021) where high ability workers are more likely to teach when there is expected future monetary beneficial from teaching (see their Result 7). However, among the 11 groups with teaching, the ratio that finally chose piece rate rather than equal sharing for Stage 3 is as high as 82% (i.e., 9 out of 11), even higher than the overall ratio of 71% choosing piece rate among all 124 groups in our sample and the ratio of 63% among all groups in the threshold condition. ...

... Geographic inequality would then diminish. However, it remains unclear how large-scale, full-time remote work would affect productivity (Choudhury et al. 2021;Bloom et al. 2015), and in particular learning and innovation (Sandvik et al. 2020;Cornelissen et al. 2017). More broadly, large cities have a long history of adapting to overcome challenges such as epidemics or the decline of manufacturing districts (Glaeser 2020). ...