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This study is really, really, really bad. Here's an analysis: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/06/27/seattles-higher-minimum-wage-is-

• smsm42 9y ago
  Ben Spielberg, a Teach For America alum and former member of the Executive Board of the San Jose Teachers Association, works on issues related to inequality, economic opportunity, and full employment with Jared Bernstein at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. So he's not an economist, not a statistician and is a political activist having an agenda that this study seems to undermine. I don't have enough knowledge in statistics and econometrics to know which team did better job - Berkeley or UW - but if I had to choose, I would certainly not make the choice based on a word of a political activist without relevant background.