Assistant Professor Kaisen Published in Top Economics Field Journal

Assistant Professor of Economics Josh Kaisen has published a research article called "An Example of Negative Wage Elasticity for YouTube Content Creators" in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

This paper validates the income-targeting model of labor supply using an exogenous source of wage variation, a novel contribution to the literature. The research reveals that workers produce less when wages are higher which is inefficient in the long run and hurts the inherit market—YouTube—by underprovisioning a public good.

To access the article online use the following link: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1fqlXc24a-eTe