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Lessons Learned and Ignored in U.S. Place-Based Policymaking

Freedman, Matthew; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Place-based programs aim to encourage economic and community development in defined geographic areas. They frequently offer tax incentives, grants, loans, or regulatory relief to private or non-profit entities for investing in specific communities. Funding can support a range of activities,...

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Too Much of a Good Thing? How Narrow Targeting and Policy Interactions Influence Responses to California's EITC

Neumark, David; Li, Zeyu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

California has the highest Earned Income Tax (EITC) supplement to the federal EITC, with an 85% supplement rate. However, we find that despite the apparent generosity of the California EITC, there is no employment effect on less-skilled single mothers, in sharp contrast to the evidence of...

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Do stronger age discrimination laws make social security reforms more effective?

Neumark, David; Song, Joanne - 2011

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Longer-run effects of antipoverty policies on disadvantaged neighborhoods

Neumark, David; Asquith, Brian J.; Bass, Brittany - 2019

We estimate the longer-run effects of minimum wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and welfare on key economic … increase employment and to reduce poverty and public assistance. We also find some evidence that higher welfare benefits had … longer-run adverse effects, and quite robust evidence that tighter welfare time limits reduce poverty and public assistance …

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The effects of living wage laws : evidence from failed and derailed living wage campaigns

Adams, Scott J. (contributor); Neumark, David (contributor) - 2005

Living wage campaigns have succeeded in about 100 jurisdictions in the United States but have also been unsuccessful in numerous cities. These unsuccessful campaigns provide a better control group or counterfactual for estimating the effects of living wage laws than the broader set of all cities...

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Do Minimum Wages Reduce Job Opportunities for Blacks?

Neumark, David; Kala, Jyotsana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We provide a comprehensive analysis of the effects of minimum wages on blacks, and on the relative impacts on blacks vs. whites. We study not only teenagers - the focus of much of the minimum wage-employment literature - but also other low-skill groups. We focus primarily on employment, which...

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Unresolved Conflict in Workers' Compensation : The Impact of Legal Representation on Workers' Compensation Benefits

Savych, Bogdan; Neumark, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We estimate the causal effect of attorney involvement on the indemnity benefits workers receive after their injuries. To address the fundamental challenge that claims and injuries may differ on unmeasured dimensions that affect both attorney involvement and benefits received, we propose and use...

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The effects of living wage laws on low-wage workers and low-income families : what do we know now?

Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Koyle, Leslie - 2012

We provide updated evidence on the effects of living wage laws in U.S. cities, relative to the earlier research covering only the first six or seven years of existence of these laws. There are some challenges to updating the evidence, as the CPS data on which it relies changed geographic coding...

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Revisiting the minimum wage-employment debate : throwing out the baby with the bathwater?

Neumark, David; Salas, J. M. Ian; Wascher, William L. - 2013

We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new studies claiming that the standard panel data approach used in much of the "new minimum wage research" is flawed because it fails to account for spatial heterogeneity. These...

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The econometrics and economics of the employment effects of minimum wages : getting from known unknowns to known knowns

Neumark, David - 2018

I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the United States. My intent is to try to identify key questions raised in the recent literature, and some from the earlier literature, which I think hold the most promise for...

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