Barton H. Hamilton

Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business

Robert Brookings Smith Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship

One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1133

St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

United States

http://www.olin.wustl.edu/faculty/hamiltonb/

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1.

Diversity and Productivity in Production Teams

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 May 2004
Barton H. Hamilton, Jackson A. Nickerson and Hideo Owan
Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School and University of Tokyo
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Teams, diversity, productivity, turnover, learning, task coordination

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State Minimum Wages, Employment, and Wage Spillovers: Evidence From Administrative Payroll Data

State Minimum Wages, Employment, and Wage Spillovers: Evidence From Administrative Payroll Data (Mar 1, 2020). Journal of Labor Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 98 Posted: 05 May 2017 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2020
Radhakrishnan Gopalan, Barton H. Hamilton, Ankit Kalda and David Sovich
Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School, Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance and University of Kentucky - Gatton College of Business and Economics
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Minimum Wage, Labor Economics, Employment, Income

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Team Incentives and Worker Heterogeneity: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Teams on Productivity and Participation

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Team Incentives and Worker Heterogeneity: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Teams on Productivity and Participation

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 24 Jul 2001
Barton H. Hamilton, Jackson A. Nickerson and Hideo Owan
Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School and University of Tokyo
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teams, productivity, free-riding, learning, bargaining, sorting, compensating differentials

Team Incentives and Worker Heterogeneity: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Teams on Productivity and Participation

Posted: 30 May 2003
Barton H. Hamilton, Jackson A. Nickerson and Hideo Owan
Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School and University of Tokyo

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Home Equity and Labor Income: The Role of Constrained Mobility

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 05 May 2017 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2020
Radhakrishnan Gopalan, Barton H. Hamilton, Ankit Kalda and David Sovich
Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School, Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance and University of Kentucky - Gatton College of Business and Economics
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Home Equity, Mortgage Debt, Income, Labor Mobility, Debt Overhang

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The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship

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The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 20 May 2014
Barton H. Hamilton, Nicholas W. Papageorge and Nidhi Pande
Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, Johns Hopkins University Department of Economics and TERI University
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Entrepreneurship, Personality, Non-cognitive skills, Latent factors

The Right Stuff? Personality and Entrepreneurship

NBER Working Paper No. w25006
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 17 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2023
Barton H. Hamilton, Nicholas W. Papageorge and Nidhi Pande
Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, Johns Hopkins University Department of Economics and University of Delhi
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The Small Firm Effect and the Entrepreneurial Spawning of Scientists and Engineers

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 28 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2009
Daniel W. Elfenbein, Barton H. Hamilton and Todd Zenger
Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School, Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business and University of Utah
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entrepreneurship, small firms, high-ability workers, science and engineering labor force

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Aversion to Student Debt? Evidence From Low-Wage Workers

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 115 Posted: 12 May 2021 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2022
Radhakrishnan Gopalan, Barton H. Hamilton, Jorge Sabat and David Sovich
Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School, Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, Universidad Andres Bello and University of Kentucky - Gatton College of Business and Economics
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Student debt, minimum wage, debt aversion

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Technology Diffusion and Market Structure: Evidence from Infertility Treatment Markets

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Oct 2005
Barton H. Hamilton and Brian McManus
Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Economics
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Technology diffusion, technology adoption, new products, competition, in vitro fertilization (IVF), infertility treatment

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Competition, Insurance, and Quality in the Market for Advanced Infertility Treatment

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 07 Feb 2004
Barton H. Hamilton and Brian McManus
Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Economics
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Infertility, in vitro fertilization (IVF), access to IVF treatment, multiple births, insurance mandates, competition restrictions

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Who Protests, What Do They Protest, And Why?

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Who Protests, What Do They Protest, And Why?

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 03 May 2023
Nicholas W. Papageorge, Erica Chenoweth, Barton H. Hamilton, Hedwig Lee, Stephen Roll and Matthew Zahn
Johns Hopkins University Department of Economics, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis and Johns Hopkins University
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Protest, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Reopening, COVID-19. JEL Classification: H00, H8, Z10

Who Protests, What Do They Protest, and Why?

NBER Working Paper No. w29987
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 03 May 2022 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2023
Erica Chenoweth, Barton H. Hamilton, Hedwig Lee, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Stephen Roll and Matthew Zahn
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, Johns Hopkins University Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis and Johns Hopkins University
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Who Protests, What Do They Protest, and Why?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15697
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 15 Nov 2022
Erica Chenoweth, Barton H. Hamilton, Hedwig Lee, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Stephen Roll and Matthew Zahn
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, Johns Hopkins University Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis and Johns Hopkins University
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protest, Black Lives Matter (BLM), reopening, COVID-19

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Labor Mobility and Productivity: Evidence from Finance

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2017
Roni Kisin and Barton H. Hamilton
FDIC and Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business
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Labor mobiltity, productivity, investment management, mutual funds, hedge funds, financial regulation, selection, heterogeneous treatment effects

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Learning, Private Information, and the Economic Evaluation of Randomized Experiments

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Learning, Private Information, and the Economic Evaluation of Randomized Experiments

Olin School of Business Working Paper No. 2003-08-03
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Oct 2003
Barton H. Hamilton and Tat Y. Chan
Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business and Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School
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Learning, Side Effects, Attrition, Treatment Evaluation, Randomized Experiments, Clinical Trial, Discrete Choice Dynamic Programming, Simulation Estimation, AIDS, ACTG 175

Learning, Private Information, and the Economic Evaluation of Randomized Experiments

Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 114, pp. 997-1040, December 2006
Posted: 12 Dec 2006
Tat Y. Chan and Barton H. Hamilton
Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School and Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business

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The Bright Side of Nepotism? Family CEOs, Turnover, and Firm Performance

Olin Business School Center for Finance & Accounting Research Paper No. 2023/13
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 03 Nov 2023
Barton H. Hamilton, Andrés Hincapié and Noah Lyman
Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Economics and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Economics
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CEO Turnover, Family Firms, Firm Performance, Corporate Governance, Learning

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Employee Choice of Flexible Spending Account Participation and Health Plan

Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Research Paper Series No. 08-23
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 03 Sep 2008
Barton H. Hamilton and James Marton
Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business and Georgia State University - Andrew Young School - Department of Economics
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Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Insurance, Health Plan Choice

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Using Expectations Data to Infer Managerial Preferences

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 May 2011
Barton H. Hamilton, Tat Y. Chan and Christopher Makler
Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
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Subjective expectations, biased beliefs, structural choice and demand models, advertising, non-profit, avant-garde art

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Modeling to Inform Economy-Wide Pandemic Policy: Bringing Epidemiologists and Economists Together

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Modeling to Inform Economy-Wide Pandemic Policy: Bringing Epidemiologists and Economists Together

NBER Working Paper No. w29475
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2023
Michael Darden, David W. Dowdy, Lauren Gardner, Barton H. Hamilton, Karen A. Kopecky, Melissa Marx, Nicholas W. Papageorge, Daniel Polsky, Kimberly Powers, Elizabeth A. Stuart and Matthew Zahn
Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University - Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University Department of Economics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, Johns Hopkins University - Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins University
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Health, Human Capital and Domestic Violence

NBER Working Paper No. w22887
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 05 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2023
Nicholas W. Papageorge, Gwyn Pauley, Mardge Cohen, Tracey Wilson, Barton H. Hamilton and Robert A. Pollak
Johns Hopkins University Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Rush University, State University of New York (SUNY) - SUNY-Downstate School of Public Health, Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business and Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School
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Innovation and Diffusion of Medical Treatment

NBER Working Paper No. w24577
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 07 May 2018 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2023
Barton H. Hamilton, Andrés Hincapié, Robert A. Miller and Nicholas W. Papageorge
Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and Johns Hopkins University Department of Economics
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Medical Innovation and Health Disparities

NBER Working Paper No. w28864
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 31 May 2021 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2022
Barton H. Hamilton, Andrés Hincapié, Emma Kalish and Nicholas W. Papageorge
Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Economics, The Urban Institute and Johns Hopkins University Department of Economics
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Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions: Does Market Consolidation Harm Patients?

Washington University Olin WP No. OLIN-97-25
Posted: 09 Jun 1998
Barton H. Hamilton and Vivian Ho
Washington University, Saint Louis - John M. Olin School of Business and University of Alabama Birmingham, Health Care Orga

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