Using data from the 1982 Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the authors investigate the relationship between wages and the risk of work-related death or non-fatal injury. Including industry-level variables and using alternative risk measures dramatically affects measured wage compensation. The...

We use National Football League (NFL) data to analyze the impact of minimum salaries on an employee's career length. The NFL has a salary structure in which the minimum salary a player can receive increases with the player's years of experience. Salary schedules similar to the NFL's exist in...

The difference-in-differences (DID) approach that identifies the capitalization of amenities through changes in housing prices has been widely used in the literature of hedonic estimation in the past decade. However, concerns have been raised about how to interpret the estimated capitalization...