Minimum Wages and Teenage Childbearing in the United States
利用2003-2019年数据和堆叠双重差分模型，研究美国最低工资对15-19岁青少年生育率的影响，发现最低工资并非有效的政策工具。
ABSTRACT The minimum wage is increasingly viewed as an important, but often neglected, tool for improving public health outcomes. Using data from the period 2003–2019 and a stacked difference‐in‐differences regression model that accounts for dynamic and heterogeneous treatment effects, we explore the relationship between minimum wages and teenage childbearing in the United States. We find no evidence of a systematic, negative relationship between minimum wages and childbearing among 15‐ through 19‐year‐olds. Likewise, our estimates are not consistent with the argument that minimum wages are an effective policy tool for discouraging female 15‐ through 19‐year‐olds from having unprotected sex.