More on recent evidence on the effects of minimum wages in the United States

Table 2 Mean synthetic control weights per state in same division and other divisions, CPS data at state by quarter level, 1990 – 2011:Q2

	Mean synthetic control weight per same-division state					Mean synthetic control weight per other-division state
*Matched on:*	*Residual*	*Residual, 0 MW effect*	*Teen empl. level*	*Teen empl., 1-quarter diff.*	*Teen empl., 4-quarter diff.*	*Residual*	*Residual, 0 MW effect*	*Teen empl. level*	*Teen empl., 1-quarter diff.*	*Teen empl., 4-quarter diff.*
*Matched on:*	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)	(9)	(10)
New England	0.029	0.025	0.038	0.032	0.016	0.019	0.019	0.018	0.019	0.020
Mid-Atlantic	0.015	0.013	0.026	0.015	0.010	0.020	0.020	0.020	0.020	0.020
East North Central	0.010	0.010	0.008	0.010	0.016	0.021	0.021	0.021	0.021	0.020
West North Central	0.021	0.024	0.098	0.022	0.015	0.020	0.019	0.009	0.020	0.021
South Atlantic	0.027	0.027	0.022	0.020	0.026	0.019	0.019	0.020	0.020	0.019
East South Central	0.039	0.040	0.029	0.041	0.025	0.019	0.019	0.019	0.019	0.020
West South Central	0.011	0.010	0.024	0.015	0.015	0.021	0.021	0.020	0.020	0.020
Mountain	0.017	0.017	0.023	0.027	0.025	0.020	0.021	0.020	0.019	0.019
Pacific	0.024	0.025	0.031	0.020	0.021	0.020	0.020	0.019	0.020	0.020
All	0.022	0.022	0.035	0.023	0.020	0.020	0.020	0.018	0.020	0.020

Notes: Table reports calculations from synthetic control matching on all minimum wage increases in the sample period. The donor pool used consists of all states other than the treatment state. The estimates in columns (1), (2), (6), and (7) are based on residuals from panel data estimates of the log of the teen employment rate on fixed state and period effects and controls for the aggregate unemployment rate and the relative size of the teen population. The log of the minimum wage is included in the regression used in columns (1) and (6). (See NSW, 2014, for more details).