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Overview

Dan A. Black is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences and economics, with notable contributions to fields such as sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, statistics and probability, gender studies, and media technology.

The scientist has published extensively in the following main fields of study:

  • Social Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

The subfields of study covered include:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Gender Studies
  • Media Technology

The main topics addressed by Dan A. Black's research are:

  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
  • Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Inequality
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • ICT Impact and Policies
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Statistical Methods and Inference

Frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • Computers Environment and Urban Systems
  • Labour Economics
  • Journal of Public Economics

Dan A. Black has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Jeffrey A. Smith
  • Jeffrey Grogger
  • Tom Kirchmaier
  • Koen Sanders
  • J. Saxon

Their recent papers demonstrate a variety of topics and publication venues:

  • College Majors, Occupations, and the Gender Wage Gap (2021, The Journal of Economic Perspectives)
  • What we can learn from selected, unmatched data: Measuring internet inequality in Chicago (2022, Computers Environment and Urban Systems)
  • Simple Tests for Selection: Learning More from Instrumental Variables (2022, Labour Economics)
  • Overcoming Financial Constraints and Migrating Out of Rural and Distressed America (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Relaxing financial constraints with tax credits and migrating out of rural and distressed America (2024, Journal of Public Economics)

Best Publications

  • How robust is the evidence on the effects of college quality? Evidence from matching

    Dan A. Black;Jeffrey A. Smith;Jeffrey A. Smith

  • Job Matching and On-the-Job Training

    John M. Barron;Dan A. Black;Mark A. Loewenstein

  • THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE COAL BOOM AND BUST

    Dan Black;Terra McKinnish;Seth Sanders

  • Estimating the Returns to College Quality with Multiple Proxies for Quality

    Dan A. Black;Jeffrey A. Smith

  • Discrimination in an Equilibrium Search Model

    Dan A. Black

  • Employer Size: The Implications for Search, Training, Capital Investment, Starting Wages, and Wage Growth

    John M. Barron;Dan A. Black;Mark A. Loewenstein

  • Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective than the Services Themselves? Evidence from Random Assignment in the UI System *

    Dan A. Black;Jeffrey A. Smith;Mark C. Berger;Brett J. Noel

  • The Impact of Economic Conditions on Participation in Disability Programs: Evidence from the Coal Boom and Bust

    Dan Black;Kermit Daniel;Seth Sanders

  • Acquiring Skills: Market Failures, their Symptoms and Policy Responses

    Alison L. Booth;Dennis J. Snower

  • Do Workers Pay for On-the-Job Training?.

    John M. Barron;Mark C. Berger;Dan A. Black

  • The Economics of Lesbian and Gay Families

    Dan A. Black;Seth G. Sanders;Lowell J. Taylor

  • THE EARNINGS EFFECTS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION

    Dan A. Black;Hoda R. Makar;Seth G. Sanders;Lowell J. Taylor

  • Bidding for Firms

    Dan A Black;William H Hoyt

  • Gender differences in training, capital, and wages

    John M. Barron;Dan A. Black;Mark A. Loewenstein

  • Why Do Gay Men Live in San Francisco

    Dan Black;Gary Gates;Seth Sanders;Lowell Taylor

  • Child Care Subsidies, Quality of Care, and the Labor Supply of Low-Income, Single Mothers

    Mark C. Berger;Dan A. Black

  • Bounding Parameter Estimates with Nonclassical Measurement Error

    Dan A. Black;Mark C. Berger;Frank A. Scott

  • On the Measurement of Job Risk in Hedonic Wage Models

    Dan A. Black;Thomas K. Kniesner

  • On-The-Job Training

    John M. Barron;Mark C. Berger;Dan A. Black

  • Tight labor markets and the demand for education: Evidence from the coal boom and bust

    Dan A. Black;Terra G. McKinnish;Seth G. Sanders

  • Why do so few women work in New York (and so many in Minneapolis)? Labor supply of married women across US cities

    Dan A. Black;Natalia A. Kolesnikova;Lowell J. Taylor

  • Gender Wage Disparities among the Highly Educated

    Dan A. Black;Amelia M. Haviland;Seth G. Sanders;Lowell J. Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Lowell J. Taylor
Lowell J. Taylor Carnegie Mellon University
Jeffrey A. Smith
Jeffrey A. Smith University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mark C. Berger
Mark C. Berger University of Kentucky
John M. Barron
John M. Barron Purdue University West Lafayette
Michael R. Baye
Michael R. Baye Indiana University
Thomas J. Kniesner
Thomas J. Kniesner Claremont Graduate University
Erik Hurst
Erik Hurst University of Chicago
Stuart S. Rosenthal
Stuart S. Rosenthal Cornell University
Amitabh Chandra
Amitabh Chandra Harvard University
Julia Lane
Julia Lane New York University

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