New Working Paper Set: Interpreting Recent Research on the Effects of Minimum Wage Increases Enacted During the Great Recession

Jeffrey Clemens, UC San Diego

Working Paper: The Effect of State Mandated Sex Education on Teenage Sexual Behaviors and Health

How did the Seattle Minimum Wage Affect Poor and Near-Poor Workers?

Explaining the Decline in the U.S. Employment-to-Population Ratio over Recent Decades

Understanding the various potential factors driving the structural decline remains a priority for labor economists and policy makers alike.

The Returns of an Additional Year of School: The Case of State-Mandated Kindergarten

The Unequal Consequences of Mass Incarceration for Children

Kristin Turney, UC Irvine

Proposal: The High Wage Tax Credit

Shifting some of the cost of higher minimum wages to taxpayers puts the minimum wage on a more equal footing with other redistributional policies.

Minimum Wage Debate Motivated by Evidence or Ideology?

Dan Paley

Lecture: Using Minimum Wages to Fight Inequality and Poverty

New working paper: The Long-Run Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Women’s Earnings

The first of its kind long-term look adds to prior research that focused only on short-term benefits.