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View article: A Local Projections Approach to Difference‐in‐Differences
A Local Projections Approach to Difference‐in‐Differences Open
We propose a local projections (LPs)‐based difference‐in‐differences (DiD) approach that subsumes many of the recent solutions proposed in the literature to address possible biases arising from negative weighting. We combine LPs with a fle…
View article: Public Debt and Growth: An Assessment of Key Findings on Causality and Thresholds
Public Debt and Growth: An Assessment of Key Findings on Causality and Thresholds Open
We provide a comprehensive assessment of the relationship between public debt and GDP growth in the postwar advanced economies. We use the timing of changes in public debt and growth to account for endogeneity, and find little evidence of …
View article: Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties
Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties Open
We use policy discontinuities at state borders to identify the effects of minimum wages on earnings and employment in restaurants and other low-wage sectors. Our approach generalizes the case study method by considering all local differenc…
View article: Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment
Unemployment Insurance Generosity and Aggregate Employment Open
This paper examines the impact of unemployment insurance (UI) on aggregate employment by exploiting cross-state variation in the maximum benefit duration during the Great Recession. Comparing adjacent counties located in neighboring states…
View article: Monopsony in Movers
Monopsony in Movers Open
Ihsaan Bassier, Arindrajit Dube and Suresh Naidu University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Massachusetts, Amherst, NBER, IZA Columbia University, NBER
View article: Aggregate Employment Effects of Unemployment Benefits During Deep Downturns: Evidence from the Expiration of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation
Aggregate Employment Effects of Unemployment Benefits During Deep Downturns: Evidence from the Expiration of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation Open
The expiration of the temporary $600 boost to weekly UI benefits under the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) led to a sharp, unprecedented, 98 percentage point reduction (on average) in the replacement rate during a time wh…
View article: City Limits: What Do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do?
City Limits: What Do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do? Open
Cities are increasingly setting their own minimum wages, and this trend has accelerated sharply in recent years. While in 2010 there were only three cities with their own minimum wages exceeding the state or federal standard, by 2020 there…
View article: Aggregate Employment Effects of Unemployment Benefits During Deep Downturns: Evidence from the Expiration of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation
Aggregate Employment Effects of Unemployment Benefits During Deep Downturns: Evidence from the Expiration of the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation Open
The expiration of the temporary $600 boost to weekly UI benefits under the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) led to a sharp, unprecedented, 98 percentage point reduction (on average) in the replacement rate during a time wh…
View article: Seeing Beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes
Seeing Beyond the Trees: Using Machine Learning to Estimate the Impact of Minimum Wages on Labor Market Outcomes Open
We assess the effect of the minimum wage on labor market outcomes such as employment, unemployment, and labor force participation for most workers affected by the policy.We apply modern machine learning tools to construct demographically-b…
View article: City Limits: What do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do?
City Limits: What do Local-Area Minimum Wages Do? Open
Cities are increasingly setting their own minimum wages, and this trend has accelerated sharply in recent years.While in 2010 there were only three cities with their own minimum wages exceeding the state or federal standard, by 2020 there …
View article: Monopsony in Movers: The Elasticity of Labor Supply to Firm Wage Policies
Monopsony in Movers: The Elasticity of Labor Supply to Firm Wage Policies Open
We provide new estimates of the separations elasticity, a proximate determinant of the labor supply facing a firm with respect to hourly wage, using matched Oregon employer-employee data.Existing estimates using individual wage variation m…
View article: Monopsony in Online Labor Markets
Monopsony in Online Labor Markets Open
Despite the seemingly low switching and search costs of on-demand labor markets like Amazon Mechanical Turk, we find substantial monopsony power, as measured by the elasticity of labor supply facing the requester (employer). We isolate pla…
View article: Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes
Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes Open
There is robust evidence that higher minimum wages increase family incomes at the bottom of the distribution. The long-run (3 or more years) minimum wage elasticity of the non-elderly poverty rate with respect to the minimum wage ranges be…
View article: The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs*
The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs* Open
We estimate the effect of minimum wages on low-wage jobs using 138 prominent state-level minimum wage changes between 1979 and 2016 in the United States using a difference-in-differences approach. We first estimate the effect of the minimu…
View article: Replication Data for: 'The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs'
Replication Data for: 'The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs' Open
The data and programs replicate tables and figures from "The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs", by Cengiz, Dube, Lindner, and Zipperer. Please see the Readme file for additional details.
View article: Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior
Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior Open
We analyze how separations responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages at a large US retailer. Regression-discontinuity estimates imply large causal effects of own-wages on separations, and on quits in particular. However, thi…
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