The relative impacts of economics journals: 1970-1990

DN Laband, MJ Piette - Journal of economic Literature, 1994 - JSTOR
JN THIS PAPER we seek to:(1) update and backdate the paper by Stanley Liebowitz and
John Palmer (LP) that appeared in this Journal in 1984, which permits us to (2) investigate the …

Entrepreneurial success and occupational inheritance among proprietors

BF Lentz, DN Laband - Canadian Journal of Economics, 1990 - JSTOR
Roughly 50 per cent of self-employed proprietors are second-generation proprietors. These
individuals acquire informal business experience while growing up in the context of a family …

Intellectual collaboration

DN Laband, RD Tollison - Journal of Political economy, 2000 - journals.uchicago.edu
… Economy graciously permitted Laband access to the Journal’s files in December 1988. He
is indebted to Vicky Longawa for assistance with data collection at that time. Laband also is …

Favoritism versus search for good papers: Empirical evidence regarding the behavior of journal editors

DN Laband, MJ Piette - Journal of Political Economy, 1994 - journals.uchicago.edu
Journal editors who publish papers authored by colleagues and former graduate students
have been charged with practicing favoritism, with the implication that the papers in question …

Why so many children of doctors become doctors: Nepotism vs. human capital transfers

BF Lentz, DN Laband - Journal of Human Resources, 1989 - JSTOR
… Lentz is an associate professor of economics at Ursinus College and David N. Laband is an
associate professor of economics at Clemson University. Financial support for this research …

Like father, like son: Toward an economic theory of occupational following

DN Laband, BF Lentz - Southern Economic Journal, 1983 - JSTOR
It used to be common, if not expected, that a son would grow up and take over the family
business or follow in his father's footsteps. Although less prevalent today, we still observe …

Occupational inheritance in agriculture

DN Laband, BF Lentz - American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1983 - JSTOR
It used to be common, if not expected, that a son would grow up and take over the family
business or follow in his father's footsteps. Today we still observe varying degrees of …

Energy savings from tree shade

R Pandit, DN Laband - Ecological Economics, 2010 - Elsevier
Trees cast shade on homes and buildings, lowering the inside temperatures and thus reducing
demand for power to cool these buildings during hot times of the year. Drawing from a …

The effects of sexual harassment on job satisfaction, earnings, and turnover among female lawyers

DN Laband, BF Lentz - ILR Review, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
Using data from the American Bar Association's National Survey of Career Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction
(1990), the authors estimate the incidence and impact of sexual harassment in the …

The social cost of rent-seeking: First estimates

DN Laband, JP Sophocleus - Public Choice, 1988 - JSTOR
… of Laband's approach, which are fully recognized by Laband, are obvious, but the editor at
the moment can think of no way of doing better. Can the readers do better than both Laband