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We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the "direct" effects of marriage and motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure);...
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have two findings to report. First, the data collected by CK appear to indicate greater employment variation over the eight …-month period between their surveys than do the payroll data. For example, in the full sample the standard deviation of employment … change in CK's data is three times as large as that in the payroll data. Second, estimates of the employment effect of the …
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We argue in this paper that the focus on employment effects in recent studies of minimum wages ignores an important … interaction between schooling, employment, and the minimum wage. To study these linkages, we estimate a conditional logit model of … employment and enrollment outcomes for teenagers using state-year observations for the period 1977 to 1989. The results show a …
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spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county pairs … sharing a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant industry. Using …
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