Works
- Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, American Economic Review (with David Card), 1994
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A Princeton labor economist whose study with David Card compared fast-food employment in New Jersey, which raised its minimum wage, with neighboring Pennsylvania, which did not, a landmark use of the difference-in-differences design.
Caveat: The study's finding that the higher minimum wage did not reduce employment was disputed, notably by David Neumark and William Wascher using payroll records; the design itself is widely taught.