The minimum wage and teen educational attainment

Alexander Smith

Labour Economics, 2021, vol. 73, issue C

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.

Keywords: Minimum wage; Teen labor market; Educational attainment; High school dropout (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102061

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