Curt wrote:
>Say, with the endless minimum wage debate, conducting an experiment
>in which the only things different about the employers in question
>was the minimum wage law, and the employers weren't competing.
Given sufficient funding, such experiments are possible. In fact,
analogous experiments have been done - I haven't looked at the details
in a while.
For example, a famous health economics experiment (by RAND) randomly gave
different people different copayment rates, and examined their differing
health care usage and health outcomes.
Robin Hanson
hanson@econ.berkeley.edu http://hanson.berkeley.edu/
RWJF Health Policy Scholar, Sch. of Public Health 510-643-1884
140 Warren Hall, UC Berkeley, CA 94720-7360 FAX: 510-643-8614
Received on Wed Jan 7 20:54:55 1998
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