Neumark, David; Zhang, Junfu; Ciccarella, Stephen - Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine - 2006
We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity of the location and timing of Wal-Mart openings that most likely biases the evidence against finding adverse effects of Wal-Mart stores. We address the endogeneity problem using...