Episode 59: Erika Deserranno on the Effect of Minimum Wage Increases on Worker Productivity

Erika Deserranno is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bocconi University and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

The paper discussed in this episode is ‘Minimum Wage and Individual Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Large US Retailer’, by Decio Coviello, Erika Deserranno, and Nicola Persico. The paper was published at the Journal of Political Economy in 2022.