Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: Experimental Evidence on Individual Labor Supply Decisions

摘要1729822 AngristThe工人对高工资率的反应程度对于我们理解收入和贫困的决定因素是很重要的。对于那些受教育程度低、有犯罪记录或药物滥用史等其他不利条件的工人来说，情况尤其如此。这些工人可能很少有机会提高自己的地位。了解这些人对工资提议的反应将为旨在增加弱势工人就业和收入的政策提供指导。 该研究项目将为低技能和其他弱势工人对工资变化的反应提供新的实验证据。 该项目的独特之处在于它使用实验方法，并侧重于可能有犯罪记录或在劳动力市场面临其他挑战的低技能男女。 估计数将用于预测各种公共政策在刺激劳动力参与方面的潜在有效性。 这些结果可能有助于设计增加美国就业的政策，从而加强美国经济。近几十年来，低技能弱势群体的劳动力参与率一直在下降。然而，很少有人知道这些群体的工资提供劳动力供给弹性。 研究人员将与一家全国性的拼车公司合作进行一系列随机实验，以产生密集和广泛的边际劳动力供应弹性的实验估计。 该研究针对感兴趣的人群，包括低技能男性和女性，以估计劳动力供给弹性，可用于为当前的公共政策辩论提供信息，包括劳动力参与率和性别工资差距。 该项目将提供一些关于弱势工人的第一批实验证据？劳动供给弹性。这项研究的结果可能有助于设计增加美国就业的政策，从而加强美国经济。

Abstract 1729822 AngristThe extent to which workers respond to higher wage rates is important for our understanding of the determinants of income and poverty. This is especially true for workers with little education and other disadvantages such as a criminal record or a history of substance abuse. These workers may have few opportunities to improve their positions. Understanding how these people respond to wage offers will provide a guide to policies designed to increase employment and earnings for disadvantaged workers. This research project will provide new experimental evidence on the response of low skilled and other disadvantaged workers to changes in wages. This project is unique in its use of experimental methods and in its focus on low-skilled men and women who may have criminal records or face other challenges in the labor market. The estimates will be used to project the potential effectiveness of various public policies to stimulate labor force participation. These results may contribute to the design of policies that increase employment in the U.S. and therefore strengthen the U.S. economy. Labor force participation rates among low skilled disadvantaged groups have been on the decline in recent decades. Yet very little is known about labor supply elasticities to wage offers of these groups. The researchers will conduct a series of randomized experiments in collaboration with a national ridesharing company to produce experimental estimates of intensive and extensive margin labor supply elasticities. The research targets populations of interest, including low-skilled men and women to produce estimates of labor supply elasticities that can be used to inform current public policy debates including those on the labor force participation rate and the gender wage gap. The project will provide some of the first experimental evidence on disadvantaged workers? labor supply elasticities. The results of this research may contribute to the design of policies that increase employment in the U.S. and therefore strengthen the U.S. economy.