

Antonio Rodriguez
141 posts

@4ntonioR
associate professor of economics @UCIrvine | international trade, labor markets, and some macro | 🇲🇽




El banco de inversión @GoldmanSachs proyecta que para 2075 México será la DÉCIMA potencia económica mundial, superando a Reino Unido, Japón, Francia, Canadá e Italia. Hoy estamos en el sitio 14 con una trayectoria en ascenso brutal. ¿Qué cambió? La política económica. La economía moral de la Cuarta Transformación sigue demostrando que combatiendo la corrupción, aumentando el salario mínimo, fortaleciendo el mercado interno y poniendo en primer lugar a la gente humilde y a la gente pobre no frena el crecimiento: lo impulsa. Lo que inició Andrés Manuel López Obrador hoy lo consolida la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum: Récord de inversión extranjera, un SuperHiperMegaPeso fuerte, el desempleo en mínimos históricos y millones de mexicanos saliendo de la pobreza. El futuro de México no se decreta desde Nueva York, pero desde ahí ya lo reconocen. 🇲🇽📈🚀🌎🌍🌏😎. #Economía #México #4T @lopezobrador_ @Claudiashein.




We can learn a little more by adding additional preperiods, as below. (Note that this changes the sample a little since the stacked event-study is balanced.) Here the pre-trend in population becomes much more apparent. 10/


A few thoughts on this interesting new minimum wage paper by @NeumarkEcon and @4ntonioR renalyzing the QJE paper by @arindube-@attilalindner-@benzipperer, which relates to one of my favorite topics: event-studies and parallel trends! 1/

@arindube This sums it all up.

@4ntonioR Antonio, let's return to the substance. Words are getting heated, and I take responsibility for my share. We will put out a response and share with you. I think it will hopefully shed light of the points you made, and others can decide.


Minimum wage research has shifted from “do wage floors reduce jobs?” to “which empirical choices make the answer disappear?” The recent literature increasingly says: the null results are much more fragile than advertised. 🧵



Some interesting thoughts about the importance of controlling for population when investigating the effect of minimum wages on jobs, from Jonathan Meer and Jeremy West.





What do diff-in-diff event-study designs really tell us about the employment effects of min wages? My new paper with @NeumarkEcon tackles this using the stacked design of Cengiz-@arindube-@attilalindner-@benzipperer and the related LP-DiD design in Dube-Lindner’s HLE chapter. 🧵






Great feedback @jondr44. Thank you! While we have not looked at an extended pre-period for log population, we do show the population event-study paths in the paper. We show them for all the CDLZ events and for bundled-events samples. 1/5