IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aea/apandp/v109y2019p176-81.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Minimum Wages, Morality, and Efficiency: A Choice Experiment

Author

Listed:
  • Conor Lennon
  • Jose Fernandez
  • Stephan Gohmann
  • Keith Teltser

Abstract

We use a choice experiment to examine public support for minimum wages. We first elicit respondents' moral assessment of two labor market systems: one with a minimum wage and one without. Then, we present four pairs of hypothetical employment outcomes and ask respondents to "vote." Our estimates suggest that the average respondent requires a 4.65 percentage point reduction in unemployment before they would support a system without a minimum wage. We also find that equity matters; respondents are 11.1 percentage points less likely to support a minimum wage if it disproportionately affects minorities and females.

Suggested Citation

  • Conor Lennon & Jose Fernandez & Stephan Gohmann & Keith Teltser, 2019. "Minimum Wages, Morality, and Efficiency: A Choice Experiment," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 109, pages 176-181, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:109:y:2019:p:176-81
    Note: DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20191088
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/pandp.20191088
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/pandp.20191088.data
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/pandp.20191088.appx
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/pandp.20191088.ds
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to AEA members and institutional subscribers.
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Lennon, Conor & Teltser, Keith F. & Fernandez, Jose & Gohmann, Stephan, 2023. "How morality and efficiency shape public support for minimum wages," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 205(C), pages 618-637.

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
    • J38 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Public Policy

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:109:y:2019:p:176-81. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Michael P. Albert (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aeaaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.