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Title: Job Security and Productivity: Evidence From Academics

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: How does job security influence productivity? I create a dataset from thebibliographic records of the National Bureau of Economic Research working paper seriesand from hand collected data from individual curricula vitae to compare productivity ofprofessors before and after tenure. This paper uses a fuzzy regression discontinuity designwith fixed effects and finds that the number of papers produced drops immediately aftertenure. Also, the pattern in productivity growth changes from increasing every year tohaving very little change in the years after tenure. Assuming researchers are similar preandpost-tenure except for the new position, this finding is suggests that tenure causes thedecrease in productivity. This gives credibility to the concern that tenured professors stopbeing productive.

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Authors: Leung, William

Institution: University of California, Berkeley

Department: Economics

Advisor: Enrico Moretti

Degree: Master of Arts

Publisher Location: Berkeley, CA

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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