Bernard Herskovic
Biographic Data
| ID | 5733231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard Herskovic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard |
| FAMILY NAME | Herskovic |
| SIGNATURE | HERSKOVIC B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and National Bureau of Economic Research , USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Income-Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions
We study whether college admissions should implement quotas for lower-income applicants. We develop an overlapping-generation model and calibrate it to data from Brazil, where such a policy is widely implemented. In our model, parents choose how much to invest in their child’s education, thereby increasing both human capital and likelihood of college admission. We find that, in the long run, the optimal income-based affirmative action increases w…
Firm Volatility in Granular Networks
Firm volatilities comove strongly over time, and their common factor is the dispersion of the economy-wide firm size distribution. In the cross section, smaller firms and firms with a more concentrated customer base display higher volatility. Network effects are essential to explaining the joint evolution of the empirical firm size and firm volatility distributions. We propose and estimate a simple network model of firm volatility in which shocks…
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Firm Volatility in Granular Networks
Firm volatilities comove strongly over time, and their common factor is the dispersion of the economy-wide firm size distribution. In the cross section, smaller firms and firms with a more concentrated customer base display higher volatility. Network effects are essential to explaining the joint evolution of the empirical firm size and firm volatility distributions. We propose and estimate a simple network model of firm volatility in which shocks…
Income-Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions
We study whether college admissions should implement quotas for lower-income applicants. We develop an overlapping-generation model and calibrate it to data from Brazil, where such a policy is widely implemented. In our model, parents choose how much to invest in their child’s education, thereby increasing both human capital and likelihood of college admission. We find that, in the long run, the optimal income-based affirmative action increases w…
Economics (2 works) · Affirmative action (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Competition (biology (1 works) · Customer base (1 works) · Demographic economics (1 works) · Earnings (1 works) · Econometrics (1 works) · Economic growth (1 works) · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets (1 works)