This paper first documents trends in employment rates and then reviews what is known
about the various factors that have been proposed to explain the decline in the overall …

Entrepreneurship has become a cornerstone of economic development. The public
awareness of this phenomenon spurred great interest from the academic community and …

The canonical difference-in-differences (DD) estimator contains two time periods,” pre” and”
post”, and two groups,” treatment” and” control”. Most DD applications, however, exploit …

In this article, we consider identification, estimation, and inference procedures for treatment
effect parameters using Difference-in-Differences (DiD) with (i) multiple time periods,(ii) …

We estimate the effect of minimum wages on low-wage jobs using 138 prominent state-level
minimum wage changes between 1979 and 2016 in the United States using a difference-in …

The disagreement among studies on the employment effects of minimum wages in the
United States is well known. Less well known, and more puzzling, is the absence of …

There is growing interest in enhancing research transparency and reproducibility in
economics and other scientific fields. We survey existing work on these topics within …

Food insecurity is now recognized as a major health crisis in the United States. This is due to
the size of the problem—more than 42 million persons were food insecure in 2015—as well …

Seattle raised its minimum wage to as much as 11in2015andasmuchas 13 in 2016. We use
Washington State administrative data to conduct two complementary analyses of its impact …

The earnings difference between white and black workers fell dramatically in the United
States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This article shows that the expansion of the …