Seminar: The employment effects of the minimum wage
Dr David Slichter from SUNY Binghamton will be offering insights into ‘The employment effects of the minimum wage: A selection ratio approach to measuring treatment effects’.
This research measures the effects of the minimum wage using a novel empirical strategy that can identify treatment effects when more than one control group is available, even if all such control groups are imperfect. I compare employment outcomes in border counties where the minimum wage increases to the set of neighbouring counties, the set of neighbour-of-neighbouring counties, and so on. The key innovation is to model the ratio of the biases present in these comparisons. Crucially, models of this type have a testable implication. The econometric method can address the possibility of spillovers, and, in other contexts, can be used to measure treatment effects away from the discontinuity in a regression discontinuity design. I find that recent minimum wage increases have produced modest or no disemployment effects for teenagers.
Dr David Slichter is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He studies topics in labour economics and the economics of education, with an emphasis on using and developing new methods.
We'll be asking all to mute their microphones during the presentation, but to switch video settings on where possible, so that our presenter can see their audience. Questions and discussion will be invited from the audience at several points during the presentation.
At CHE, we are working on running as many of our seminars as possible online while COVID-19 remains an obstacle to getting together. As we will be working with experts and colleagues in other parts of the world there will be some movement in the times and days that seminars run to take into account different time zones and availabilities. If you would like to be on our seminar email list, please be directly in contact by email to shannon.stanwell@monash.edu.
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Event Details
- Date:
- 13 May 2020 at 9:00 am – 10:00 am
- Venue:
- This seminar will take place via Zoom - please email shannon.stanwell@monash.edu to register
- Categories:
- Health Economics
Description
Dr David Slichter from SUNY Binghamton will be offering insights into ‘The employment effects of the minimum wage: A selection ratio approach to measuring treatment effects’.
This research measures the effects of the minimum wage using a novel empirical strategy that can identify treatment effects when more than one control group is available, even if all such control groups are imperfect. I compare employment outcomes in border counties where the minimum wage increases to the set of neighbouring counties, the set of neighbour-of-neighbouring counties, and so on. The key innovation is to model the ratio of the biases present in these comparisons. Crucially, models of this type have a testable implication. The econometric method can address the possibility of spillovers, and, in other contexts, can be used to measure treatment effects away from the discontinuity in a regression discontinuity design. I find that recent minimum wage increases have produced modest or no disemployment effects for teenagers.
Dr David Slichter is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He studies topics in labour economics and the economics of education, with an emphasis on using and developing new methods.
We'll be asking all to mute their microphones during the presentation, but to switch video settings on where possible, so that our presenter can see their audience. Questions and discussion will be invited from the audience at several points during the presentation.
At CHE, we are working on running as many of our seminars as possible online while COVID-19 remains an obstacle to getting together. As we will be working with experts and colleagues in other parts of the world there will be some movement in the times and days that seminars run to take into account different time zones and availabilities. If you would like to be on our seminar email list, please be directly in contact by email to shannon.stanwell@monash.edu.
Hope to see you there!
Find out more about CHE seminar series and guest speakers.