An April 2016 Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) report advocated raising the minimum wage to deter crime. This recommendation rests on the assumption that minimum wage hikes increase the returns to l
The data and programs replicate tables and figures from "Minimum Wages and Racial Inequality", by Derenoncourt and Montialoux. Please see the readme file for additional details. The files are too larg
This repository contains the code necessary to replicate the findings in "Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil." Please note that a full replication of the empirical analysis
How well does public policy represent mass preferences in U.S. states? Current approaches provide an incomplete account of statehouse democracy because they fail to compare preferences and policies on
Although there is a large literature on the economic effects of minimum wages on labour market outcomes (especially employment), there is much less evidence on their impact on firm performance. In thi