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Title: The minimum wage and teen educational attainment

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2021

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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102061

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Abstract: Teen employment effects are central to the minimum wage debate, but important indirect effects on education receive relatively little attention. I investigate the effect of changes in the minimum wage on high school dropout decisions. Consistently across two sources of variation and three individual-level datasets, I find that increases in the minimum wage substantially reduce the dropout likelihood of low-socioeconomic status (SES) teens but have no effect on other teens.

Url: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537121000968?casa_token=ipIUoa4Ht9cAAAAA:JSfHlf_i0-pRISSiCH0FuByLrF1ixjyUpguQSGqjSjCoRDugByy8odvVSh-hv-_rq0AsW59i

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Authors: Smith, Alexander A.

Periodical (Full): Labour Economics

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Volume: 73

Pages: 102061

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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