Michael Lovenheim

Biographic Data

ID1104130
NAMEMichael Lovenheim
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMELovenheim
SIGNATURELOVENHEIM M
AFFILIATIONSCornell University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • The Changing Skill Content of Private-Sector Union Coverage

    Open AccessSamuel Dodini, Michael Lovenheim et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2025References: 23

    Concurrent with the decline in private-sector unionization over the past half century, a shift has occurred in the type of work covered by unions. The authors take a skill-based approach to study this shift. For both men and women, private-sector unionized jobs have changed to require more non-routine, cognitive skills, and for women, less routine, manual skills. Union/non-union skill differences have grown, with unionized jobs requiring relative…

  • The Returns to College Major Choice: Average and Distributional Effects, Career Trajectories, and Earnings Variability

    Rodney Andrews, Rodney J Andrews et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2024

    A growing literature examining labor market returns to college major is motivated by large returns to skill. Prior research focuses on mean effects rather than earnings growth and variability. Using administrative data from Texas, we find that mean differences mask important features of the returns to college majors. First, earnings growth varies across fields. Second, there is considerable effect heterogeneity across workers. Third, major choice…

  • Monopsony, Job Tasks and Labour Market Concentration

    Open AccessSamuel Dodini, Michael Lovenheim et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2024References: 42

    This paper extends the monopsony literature by taking a task-based approach and estimating the causal effect of concentration on labour market outcomes. Using detailed employer–employee data from Norway, we find that our job task-based measure shows lower degrees of concentration than conventional industry- and occupation-based measures. Exploiting mass lay-offs as exogenous shocks to local labour demand, we show that workers who experience mass …

  • The Effect of Grade Retention on Adult Crime: Evidence from a Test-Based Promotion Policy

    Ozkan Eren, Michael Lovenheim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Labor Economics2022

    We present the first analysis of the effect of grade retention on adult criminal convictions, exploiting test cutoffs for ninth-grade promotion in Louisiana. Eighth-grade retention increases the likelihood of violent crime conviction by 1.05 percentage points (58.44%) and increases the number of violent crime convictions at first conviction. The effects are likely driven by declines in high school peer quality and reduced educational investments …

  • Recruiting and supporting low-income, high-achieving students at flagship universities

    Open AccessRodney Andrews, Rodney J Andrews et al.ARTICLEEconomics of Education Review2020

  • Incentive Strength and Teacher Productivity: Evidence from a Group-Based Teacher Incentive Pay System

    Scott A Imberman, Scott Imberman et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2015

    We estimate the impact of incentive strength on achievement under a group-based teacher incentive pay program. The system provides variation in the share of students in a subject-grade that a teacher instructs, which proxies for incentive strength. We find that achievement on incentivized exams, but not nonincentivized exams, improves when incentives strengthen. For the incentivized exams, we find that effects fade out monotonically as a teacher'…

  • Does federal financial aid affect college enrollment? Evidence from drug offenders and the Higher Education Act of 1998

    Michael Lovenheim, Michael F Lovenheim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Economics2014Cited by: 7References: 33

  • Do Family Wealth Shocks Affect Fertility Choices? Evidence from the Housing Market

    Michael Lovenheim, Michael F Lovenheim et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2013

    This paper uses wealth changes driven by housing market variation to estimate the effect of family resources on fertility decisions. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we show that a $100,000 increase in housing wealth among home owners causes a 16% to 18% increase in the probability of having a child. There is no evidence of an effect of MSA-level housing price growth on the fertility of renters, however. We also present evidenc…

  • The Effect of Liquid Housing Wealth on College Enrollment

    Michael Lovenheim, Michael F LovenheimARTICLEJournal of Labor Economics2011

    This article uses short-run housing wealth changes to identify the effect of housing wealth on college attendance. I find that households used their housing wealth to finance postsecondary enrollment in the 2000s when housing wealth was most liquid; each $10,000 in home equity raises college enrollment by 0.7 of a percentage point on average. The effect is localized to lower-resource families, for whom a $10,000 increase in housing wealth increas…

  • Do blue laws save lives? The effect of Sunday alcohol sales bans on fatal vehicle accidents

    Open AccessMichael Lovenheim, Michael F Lovenheim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…2011Cited by: 5References: 1

    This paper analyzes the effect of state‐level Sunday alcohol sales restrictions (“blue laws”) on fatal vehicle accidents, which is an important parameter in assessing the desirability of these laws. Using a panel data set of all fatal vehicle accidents in the U.S. between 1990 and 2009 combined with 15 state repeals of blue laws, we show that restricting alcohol sales on Sunday has at most a small effect on fatal accident rates. Using American Ti…