Table 3:
The Long-Run Effects of the 1980–1982 Recession on Income, Wages, and Poverty
Dependent variable: | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Log personal income | Log earned income | Log hourly wage | Log family income | In poverty | |
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
Panel A. Interaction between 1979–1982 decrease in log real earnings per capita and age in 1979 | |||||
0–10 | −0.447 (0.158) |
−0.519 (0.166) |
−0.303 (0.125) |
−0.419 (0.173) |
0.158 (0.062) |
11–19 | −0.295 (0.120) |
−0.333 (0.119) |
−0.326 (0.105) |
−0.332 (0.118) |
0.070 (0.040) |
Panel B. Average value of dependent variable in years 2000–2013, by age in 1979, in levels | |||||
0–10 | 42,728 | 41,004 | 25.53 | 80,971 | 0.122 |
11–19 | 51,325 | 48,484 | 29.80 | 94,026 | 0.103 |
Notes: See notes to Table 2. The sample in columns 1–4 contains 15.6 million individuals born from 1950–1979 in the continental U.S. with a unique birth county, unique PIK, non-allocated variables, and positive values of family income, earned income, personal income, and wage. The sample in column 5 contains 18.4 million individuals born from 1950–1979 in the continental U.S. with a unique birth county, unique PIK, and non-allocated variables. All monetary variables are in 2014 dollars.
Sources: BEA Regional Economic Accounts, Census County Business Patterns, Confidential 2000–2013 Census/ACS data linked to the SSA NUMIDENT file, Publicly available 2000–2013 Census/ACS data from Ruggles et al. (2015)