This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy and data from the Current Population Survey, and disaggregate the sample by race/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential...

States are increasingly resorting to raising the minimum wage to boost the earnings of those at the bottom of the income distribution. In this paper, we examine the effects of minimum wage increases on the health of the children of immigrants. Their parents are disproportionately represented in...

In many instances, individual health outcomes are self-reported on several ordinal scales. The ordinal nature of the data creates some challenging problems in the measurement of inequalities of various distributions of health outcomes in a population. In this paper, we propose and discuss a...

Managing market expectations about monetary policy through communication is important for central banks. However, this expectation management often shows inefficiency in practice, leading to the misalignment between central banks and market participants. This misalignment is likely to influence...

We investigate regrets associated with users’ posts on a popular social networking site. Our findings are based on a series of interviews, user diaries, and online surveys involving 569 American Facebook users. Their regrets revolved around sensitive topics, content with strong sentiment,...

With the deepening linkage between housing and finance, the financial attributes of housing have been increasing. Thus, housing financialization has become a worldwide phenomenon, one that is gradually emerging in China's real estate market and cannot be ignored. The amount of urban capital is...

This study investigates the externalities of managers' responses (MRs) to online reviews on popular travel websites. Specifically, the authors examine the effect of publicly responding to hotel guests' reviews on subsequent reviewer ratings. The authors find that manager responses to negative...

The use of asymmetric discount rates in the economic analysis of law leads to the conclusion that resources should be time-divided between competing activities. In the context of nuisance remedies, this implies that the courts should consider issuing a suspended injunction in cases where...

Using a unique dataset from a large food sharing platform, we investigate the effect of supply side assortment size on users' purchase probabilities. We find that users' purchase probabilities are increasing in assortment size but at a decreasing rate. The initial increase in purchase...