Fabian Lange

Research Interests and Representative Publications

1. Employer Learning and Information over Individual Careers 

• “Signaling and Employer Learning with Instruments ”, joint with Gaurab Aryal, Manudeep Bhuller,forthcoming at American Economic Review 112(5) 2022: 1669-1702 (earlier version: NBER working paper No. w25885). 

• “The Speed of Employer Learning”, Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25(1), pp.1-35. 

2. Performance Management Systems 

• “Supervisors and Performance Management Systems”, joint with Anders Frederiksen and Lisa B. Kahn, Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128(6), pp.2123-2187. 

3. Earnings and Skill Inequality 

• “Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for Adult Outcomes”, joint with Joseph G. Altonji and Prashant Bharadwaj, Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 30(4), pp.783-828. 

4. Labor Force Dynamics 

• “Duration Dependence And Labor Market Conditions: Evidence from a Field Experiment”, joint with Kory Kroft and Matt Notowidigdo,  Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128(3), pp.1123-1167. 

5. Demographic Transitions and Quality-Quantity TradeNBER wp 33200 -Off 

• “Fertility Transitions Along the Extensive and Intensive Margin”, joint with Dan Aaronson and Bhash Mazumder,  American Economic Review, 2014, 104(11), pp.3701-24. 

6. Heterogeneity in Labour Force Transitions. 

• “Predicting Labor Force Types” with Rui Castro, Jiyoung Kim, Jerome Lariviere, and Markus Poschke, 2026, NBER Working Paper 35295 

• “Labor Force Transitions” with Rui Castro and Markus Poschke, 2025, Handbook of Labor Economics, Volumne 6, pp 819-881, (earlier version: NBER wp 33200)

• 2026 Harold Innis Lecture of the Canadian Economic Association - Slide Desk