Higher Mandated Minimum Wages Su Discussion

Respond by Day 5 to two colleagues in the following way:

• In what ways do you agree or disagree that the validity issues
  in the scenarios of causal claim selected by your colleagues are the
  most important? Provide a rationale, including examples or references.

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The two scenarios of the casual claim that has been selected for the discussion are, field experiment pertaining to minimum wage legislation will lead to higher unemployment and cross-sectional a study pertaining to capital punishment deters crime. The field experiments increase the external validity of the concern that the results are applicable beyond the study itself
to the general population. The most important validity issue in the
causal claim is aided by the various other systematic variables. When we
consider this casual claim, the system variables are incentives, area,
region, and so on. For example, the minimum wages can actually raise unemployment by
giving employers less incentive to hire and more incentive to automate
and outsource tasks that were previously performed by low-wage
employees. Higher mandated minimum wages also force businesses to raise
prices to maintain desired profit margins (McDavid, Huse & Hawthorn, 2019). Higher prices can lead to less business, which means less revenue and therefore less money to hire and pay employees.

In the cross-sectional study, validity issues imply the lack of systematic error. It has both internal and external validity. The
most important aspect invalidity issue is the systematic variables,
such as socio-economic conditions, employment status, and so on. Internal
validity refers to the strength of the inferences from the study, as
did the “exposure” or “intervention” (capital punishment) cause a
difference in the outcome (deters crime) (Ryan, 2012).
The assessment of internal validity is the observed changes can be
attributed to the exposure and not to other possible causes. The
external validity is the ability to generalize study results to a more
universal population.

References

McDavid, J. C., Huse, I., & Hawthorn, L. R. L. (2019). Program evaluation and performance measurement: An introduction to practice (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Ryan, M. (2012). Counterblast: Punishment and Crime, Democracy and Capital. The Howard Journal Of Criminal Justice, 51(5), 532-536. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2311.2012.00741.x