Evan Starr

University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business

Assistant Professor

United States

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1.

Noncompetes in the U.S. Labor Force

Journal of Law and Economics 2021
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 03 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2022
Evan Starr, J.J. Prescott and Norman Bishara
University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Michigan Law School and The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
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covenants not to compete, employment law, transparency

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Low-Wage Workers and the Enforceability of Non-Compete Agreements

Management Science
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 20 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2022
Michael Lipsitz and Evan Starr
Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics and University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business
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Low-Wage Workers, Non-compete Agreements, Wages, Mobility, Labor Market Frictions

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Binned Scatterplots: A Simple Tool to Make Research Easier and Better

Forthcoming, Strategic Management Journal
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2020
Evan Starr and Brent Goldfarb
University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 942 (35,615)
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Data Visualization, Binned Scatterplots, Graphs

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Consider This: Training, Wages, and the Enforceability of Covenants Not to Compete

Forthcoming at Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 29 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2018
Evan Starr
University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business
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Training, Wages, Employee Mobility, Covenants Not to Compete

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Locked In? The Enforceability of Covenants Not to Compete and the Careers of High-Tech Workers

Forthcoming at Journal of Human Resources, Ross School of Business Paper No. 1339, US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP-17-09
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 25 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2020
Natarajan Balasubramanian, Jin Woo Chang, Mariko Sakakibara, Jagadeesh Sivadasan and Evan Starr
Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Policy Area, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business
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Covenants Not to Compete, Wages, Mobility, Monopsony

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The Behavioral Effects of (Unenforceable) Contracts

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 26 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2022
Evan Starr, J.J. Prescott and Norman Bishara
University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Michigan Law School and The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
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Unenforceable Contracts, Covenants Not to Compete, Employee Mobility, In Terrorem Effects

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Mobility Constraint Externalities

Organization Science
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 29 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2021
Evan Starr, Justin Frake and Rajshree Agarwal
University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
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Employee Mobility, Noncompetes, Job Satisfaction, Wages, Noncompetes

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Non-Disclosure Agreements and Externalities from Silence

Upjohn Institute Working Paper 22-360
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 09 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2022
Jason Sockin, Aaron Sojourner and Evan Starr
University of Pennsylvania, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business
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Imperfect Information, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Externalities, Firm Reputation

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Understanding Noncompetition Agreements: The 2014 Noncompete Survey Project

Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2016, No. 2, pp. 369-464, 2016
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 24 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2020
J.J. Prescott, Norman Bishara and Evan Starr
University of Michigan Law School, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business
Downloads 501 (81,327)
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Noncompetes, Noncompetition Agreements, Covenants Not to Compete, Empirical, Survey Data

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Screening Spinouts? How Noncompete Enforceability Affects the Creation, Growth, and Survival of New Firms

Management Science, Forthcoming, US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP- 14-27
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 13 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2016
Evan Starr, Natarajan Balasubramanian and Mariko Sakakibara
University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business, Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Policy Area
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Covenants Not to Compete, Entrepreneurship, Spinouts

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Machine Learning and Human Capital Complementarities: Experimental Evidence on Bias Mitigation

Forthcoming at Strategic Management Journal
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 12 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2020
Prithwiraj Choudhury, Evan Starr and Rajshree Agarwal
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 446 (93,378)
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Machine Learning, Human Capital, Complementarities

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The Incomplete Noncompete Picture

Norman D. Bishara & Evan Starr, The Incomplete Noncompete Picture, 20 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 497, 497–546 (2016) , Robert H. Smith School Research Paper No. RHS 2782137
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 21 May 2016 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2016
Norman Bishara and Evan Starr
The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business
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Covenants not to compete, noncompetes, employee mobility

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Strategic Human Capital Management in the Context of Cross-Industry and Within-Industry Mobility Frictions

Strategic Management Journal, Robert H. Smith School Research Paper No. RHS 2753720
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 25 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2018
Evan Starr, Martin Ganco and Benjamin A. Campbell
University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Management and Human Resources and The Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business
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Employee mobility, Industry Specific Human Capital, Strategic human capital, Covenants Not to Compete, Labor Market Frictions

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Bundling Employment Restrictions and Value Appropriation from Employees

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 08 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2022
Natarajan Balasubramanian, Evan Starr and Shotaro Yamaguchi
Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management, University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business and University of Maryland - Department of Management & Organization
Downloads 355 (121,184)
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Employment Restrictions, Value Appropriability, Value Protection, Bundling

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Subjective Beliefs about Contract Enforceability

Forthcoming at Journal of Legal Studies
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 13 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2022
J.J. Prescott and Evan Starr
University of Michigan Law School and University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business
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Subjective Beliefs, Contract Enforceability, Covenants Not to Compete, Employee Mobility

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Mobility Restrictions, Bargaining, and Wages: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 07 Dec 2021
Donna S. Rothstein and Evan Starr
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business
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Noncompete Agreements, Bargaining, Wages

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Are Noncompetes Holding Down Wages?

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 15 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2019
Evan Starr
University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business
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Covenants Not to Compete, Wages

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Supporting Market Accountability, Workplace Equity, and Fair Competition by Reining in Non-Disclosure Agreements

Day One Project, UC Hastings Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 03 Feb 2022
Rachel S. Arnow-Richman, Gretchen Carlson, Orly Lobel, Julie Roginsky, Jodi L. Short and Evan Starr
University of Florida Levin College of Law, Lift Our Voices, University of San Diego School of Law, Lift Our Voices, UC Hastings Law and University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business
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Non-Disclosure Agreements, Secrecy

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What Drives the Small Firm Effect?

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 03 Aug 2022
Benjamin C King, Martin Ganco and Evan Starr
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Management and Human Resources and University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business
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Entrepreneurship, Small Firm Effect, Intrapreneurship

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Relaxing identifying assumptions: An application to first patents and employee mobility

Number of pages: 54
Justin Frake, Anthony Gibbs, Brent Goldfarb, Takuya Hiraiwa, Evan Starr and Shotaro Yamaguchi
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Purdue University - Krannert School of Management, University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business and University of Maryland - Department of Management & Organization
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Employee Mobility, Patents, Partial Identification