Readings

Texts

Card, D., and A. Krueger. Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.

DeGroot, M. H., and M. J. Schervish. Probability and Statistics. 3rd ed. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2002.

Goldberger, A. S. A Course in Econometrics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Wooldridge, J. M. Introductory Econometrics. 2nd ed. Cincinnati, OH: South-Western College, 2003.

Additional Readings

JAngrist, J. "Lifetime Earnings and the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery: Evidence from Social Security Administrative Records." American Economic Review 80, 3 (June 1990): 313-336.

JAngrist, J., and A. Krueger. "Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?" Quarterly Journal of Economics 106, 4 (November 1991): 979-1014.

JAngrist, J., and W. E. Evans. "Children and Their Parents' Labor Supply: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size." American Economic Review 88 (June 1998): 450-477.

JAngrist, J., G. Imbens, K. Graddy. "The Interpretation of Instrumental Variables Estimators in Simultaneous Equations Models with an Application to the Demand for Fish." Review of Economic Studies 67, 3 (July 2000): 499-528.

JAshenfelter, O., and A. Krueger. "Estimates of the Economic Returns to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins." American Economic Review 84, 5 (December 1994): 1157-1174.

JCard, D., and A. Krueger. "Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania." American Economic Review 84 (September 1994): 772-93.

JDeere, D., K. M. Murphy, and F. Welch. "Employment and the 1990-91 Minimum-Wage Hike." American Economic Review 85, 2 (May 1995): 232-237.

Delwiche, Lora D., and Susan J. Slaughter. The Little SAS Book: A Primer. 2nd ed. Cary, NC: SAS Institute, 1998.

MITDiNardo, J., and J. S. Pischke. "The Returns to Computer Use Revisited: Have Pencils Changed the Wage Structure Too?" The Quarterly Journal of Economics 112, 1 (February 1997): 291-303.

JEhrenberg, Ronald G., ed. "Review Symposium." The Industrial and Labor Relations Review 48, 4 (July 1995): 828-849.

*Freeman, R., and A. Castillo-Freeman. "When the Minimum Wage Really Bites: The Effect of the US-Level Minimum on Puerto Rico." Chapter 6 in Immigration and the Work Force. Edited by G. Borjas, and R. Freeman. Chicago: University of Chicago press, 1992.

JGraddy, K. "Testing for Imperfect Competition at the Fulton Fish Market." RAND Journal of Economics 26, 1 (Spring 1995): 75-92.

*Kim, Taeil, and Lowell J. Taylor. "The Employment Effect in Retail Trade of California's 1988 Minimum Wage Increase." Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 13, 2 (April 1995): 175-182.

JKrueger, A. "How Computers Have Changed the Wage Structure: Evidence from Micro Data." Quarterly Journal of Economics 108, 1 (February 1993): 33-60.

MITKrueger, A., and S. B. Dale. "Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 117 (November 2002): 1491-1529.

Neumark, David, and William Wascher. "Minimum Wage Effects on Employment and School Enrollment." Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 13, 2 (April 1995): 199-206.

JWoodbury, S. A., and R. Spiegelman. "Bonuses to Workers and Employers to Reduce Unemployment: Randomized Trials in Illinois." American Economic Review 77, 4 (September 1987): 513-530

(*=in reading packet, MIT=MIT E Journals, J=Jstor.org)