Boundary Discontinuity Methods and Policy Spillovers

Ekaterina Jardim worked on this paper before joining Amazon. We thank the state of Washington’s Employment Security Department for providing access to data. We thank the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the City of Seattle for funding and supporting the Seattle Minimum Wage Study. Partial support for this study came from the Center for Studies in Demography Ecology at the University of Washington. We thank Matt Bruce, Gilbert Gonzales, and conference participants at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conferences in Brussels and Chicago and seminar participants at the University of Washington for useful comments on our earlier drafts. Any opinions or errors in this work are those of the authors and should not be attributed to any other entity. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.