Estimating matching functions when recruiting intensity matters

The article estimates matching functions – the relationships between new hires, job vacancies and unemployment – using monthly time series data for Sweden. The data contain rich information on types of job vacancies which provides information on firms’ recruiting efforts. The analysis shows that the aggregate flow of new hires is well explained by an augmented version of a standard matching function that incorporates data on firms’ recruiting intensity.     

The determinants of NCAA basketball recruiting outcomes

Using recruiting rankings from Rivals.com, the authors examine the determinants of recruiting success among D1 NCAA men’s basketball programmes. After controlling for a host of potentially relevant variables, the authors find that recruiting outcomes are correlated with recent on-court success, historical on-court success, stadium size and playing in a ‘power’ conference. Additionally, teams with a history of sending players to the NBA receive heightened recruiting outcomes. A team with a new coach can expect difficulties with recruiting, while head coaches with national championships receive a recruiting boost. Finally, the authors show that recruiting strategies for guards may differ from recruiting strategies for other players.     

Reporting on a colleague's conduct cost this doctor plenty

When an ophthalmologist questioned another M.D.'s professional ethics, he found himself facing a protracted lawsuit--one with disturbing implications for all physicians.     

A doctor in the pulpit

After a bumpy start that tagged him as a political naif, HHS Secretory Louis W. Sullivan is tackling his agency's herculean mission by exhorting the public on preventive health issues that don't bust the budget.