Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

Card, David; Krueger, Alan B.

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“…The spatial discontinuity generated by this allocation rule thus can be used to allow identification of programme effects by comparing individuals who live within a band on either side of the border following Magruder (2011). This approach extends work comparing enterprises on either side of a state border in the US to look at the effects of minimum wage legislation (Card and Krueger 1994) to explore effects of centralized bargaining agreements on employment using geographic and labour force data. For the approach to be valid, communities on either side of the border have to be identical and cell-level effects that could drive our results need to be absent.…”

Section: Econometric Approachmentioning

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Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda

Ali¹,

Deininger²,

Goldstein³

2011

Policy Research Working Papers

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Although recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. Rwanda's nation-wide land tenure regularization programme is of great interest. A discontinuity design with spatial fixed effects that is used to evaluate the pilot for this programme points to three main effects; namely, (i) improved land access for legally married women and better recordation of inheritance rights; (ii) significant and large investment impacts that are particularly pronounced for women; and (iii) a reduction in land market activity rather than distress sales. Implications for programme design and policy are discussed.

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Section: Econometric Approachmentioning

confidence: 98%

Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda

Ali¹,

Deininger²,

Goldstein³

2011

Policy Research Working Papers

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“…One could then use our methods for appropriate inference. For example Card and Krueger (1994) examine the impact of the New Jersey minimum wage law change on employment in the fast food industry.…”

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Inference with "Difference in Differences" with a Small Number of Policy Changes

2005

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Difference in differences methods have become very popular in applied work. This paper provides a new method for inference in these models when there are a small number of policy changes. This situation occurs in many implementations of these estimators. Identification of the key parameter typically arises when a group "changes" some particular policy. The asymptotic approximations that are typically employed assume that the number of cross sectional groups, N, times the number of time periods, T, is large. However, even when N or T is large, the number of actual policy changes observed in the data is often very small. In this case, we argue that point estimators of treatment effects should not be thought of as being consistent and that the standard methods that researchers use to perform inference in these models are not appropriate. We develop an alternative approach to inference under the assumption that there are a finite number of policy changes in the data, using asymptotic approximations as the number of non-changing groups gets large. In this situation we cannot obtain a consistent point estimator for the key treatment effect parameter. However, we can consistently estimate the finite-sample distribution of the treatment effect estimator, up to the unknown parameter itself. This allows us to perform hypothesis tests and construct confidence intervals. For expositional and motivational purposes, we focus on the difference in differences case, but our approach should be appropriate more generally in treatment effect models which employ a large number of controls, but a small number of treatments. We demonstrate the use of the approach by analyzing the effect of college merit aide programs on college attendance. We show that in some cases the standard approach can give misleading results.

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“…Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003), Card and Krueger (1994)). However, the focus and the approach are different.…”

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A Panel Data Approach for Program Evaluation: Measuring the Benefits of Political and Economic Integration of Hong Kong With Mainland China

Hsiao

Ching

Wan

2011

J of Applied Econometrics

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We propose a simple to implement panel data method to evaluate the impacts of social policy. The basic idea is to exploit the dependence among cross-sectional units to construct the counterfactuals. The cross-sectional correlations are attributed to the presence of some (unobserved) common factors. However, instead of trying to estimate the unobserved factors, we propose to use observed data. We use a panel of 24 countries to evaluate the impact of political and economic integration of Hong Kong (HK) with Mainland China. We find that the political integration hardly had any impact on the growth of the Hong Kong economy. However, the economic integration has raised HK's annual real GDP by about 4%.

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Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

Cited by 1,279 publications

References 7 publications

Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda

Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda

Inference with "Difference in Differences" with a Small Number of Policy Changes

A Panel Data Approach for Program Evaluation: Measuring the Benefits of Political and Economic Integration of Hong Kong With Mainland China

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