I have no quarrel with Heather's findings, but the difference between the findings in the O and B work and hers in terms of elasticities could be due just to the fact that they are addressing different populations.
michael yates
Doug Henwood wrote:
> Mike Yates wrote:
>
> >I could be wrong about this, and I do not havbe the Oswald and
> >Blanchflower book in front of me (I reviewd this book, Card's and
> >Krueger's book on the minimum wage, and Botwinnick's "Persistent
> >Inequality" in a Monthly Review article last year). But the O and B book
> >is based on a multi-million sample from the entire world and not just for
> >the U.S. whereas Boushey's paper is for the U.S. alone.
>
> Heather's work is also based on a study of large metropolitan areas for one
> year. She'd like to have done more, but the New School doesn't have the
> computing facilities to handle it. She did her regressions on her own aging
> PC. I told her about EPI's roomful of Suns and she was very jealous.
>
> Doug