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Source: Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy
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1. Yankow, Jeffrey Jon
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of State Economic Freedom on Individual Wages
Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy 44,1 (2014): 58-70.
Also: http://www.jrap-journal.org/pastvolumes/2010/v44/v44_n1_a5_yankow.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Mid-Continent Regional Science Association
Keyword(s): Geocoded Data; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Modeling, OLS; State-Level Data/Policy; Wage Growth; Wages

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Matching panel data drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 to the state-level index of economic freedom published in Economic Freedom of North America 2010, this study establishes an empirical relationship between wages at the individual level and the degree of state economic freedom. In OLS models, a one standard deviation improvement in the state economic freedom score is found to increase wages by 2.5 percent. Models that control for both person-specific and state-level fixed effects reveal a wage increase of more than 8 percent. Significant variation in wage gains is found across the different areas used to construct the economic freedom measure as well as across broad worker characteristics like race and schooling level.
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Yankow, Jeffrey Jon. "A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of State Economic Freedom on Individual Wages." Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy 44,1 (2014): 58-70.