Episode 59: Erika Deserranno on the Effect of Minimum Wage Increases on Worker Productivity

The paper discussed in this episode is ‘Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer (journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/720397)’, by Decio Coviello (tintin.hec.ca/pages/decio.coviello/home.html), Erika Deserranno (sites.google.com/site/erikadeserranno/home), and Nicola Persico (nicolapersico.com). The paper was published at the Journal of Political Economy in 2022.