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A Final Report Card on the States' Response to COVID-19

Kerpen, Phil; Moore, Stephen; Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Almost exactly two years ago COVID-19 spread to the United States. Following the federalism model, the 50 states and their governors and legislators made many of their own pandemic policy choices to mitigate the damage from the virus. States learned from one another over time about what policies...

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Unemployment Insurance in Macroeconomic Stabilization

Kekre, Rohan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

I study unemployment insurance (UI) in general equilibrium with incomplete markets, search frictions, and nominal …-2014, UI benefit extensions had a contemporaneous output multiplier around 1 or higher. The unemployment rate would have been …

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Job Loss, Credit and Crime in Colombia

Khanna, Gaurav - 2019

We investigate the effects of job displacement, as a result of mass-layoffs, on criminal arrests using a novel matched employer-employee-crime dataset in Medellín, Colombia. Job displacement leads to immediate earnings losses, and an increased likelihood of being arrested for both the displaced...

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The Distribution of COVID-19 Related Risks

Baylis, Patrick - 2020

This paper documents two COVID-related risks, viral risk and employment risk, and their distributions across the Canadian population. The measurement of viral risk is based on the VSE COVID Risk/Reward Assessment Tool, created to assist policymakers in determining the impacts of economic...

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On the Timing and Efficiency of Creative Destruction

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 1994

. Government incentives to production may alleviate high unemployment in this economy, but at the cost of exacerbating sclerosis …

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A Letter and Encouragement : Does Information Increase Post-Secondary Enrollment of UI Recipients?

Barr, Andrew - 2017

For individuals who experience job loss, enrollment in post-secondary programs may provide an opportunity to improve future employment outcomes. However, decisions to enroll may be hampered by insufficient information about the benefits and costs and the necessary steps and assistance available...

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Regression Kink Design : Theory and Practice

Card, David - 2016

unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar …

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Incarceration, Recidivism and Employment

Bhuller, Manudeep - 2016

Understanding whether, and in what situations, time spent in prison is criminogenic or preventive has proven challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes these challenges in the context of Norway's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how...

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The General Equilibrium Impacts of Unemployment Insurance : Evidence from a Large Online Job Board

Marinescu, Ioana - 2016

During the Great Recession, U.S. unemployment benefits were extended by up to 73 weeks. Theory predicts that extensions … increase unemployment by discouraging job search, a partial equilibrium effect. Using data from the large job board … implies that the general equilibrium effect reduces the impact of unemployment insurance on unemployment by 40%: increasing …

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Interpreting Recent Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions

Hagedorn, Marcus - 2016

error in unemployment rates as an exogenous variation. Unfortunately, we find that this approach falls prey to the very … the effects of unemployment benefit extensions on the labor market and attempt to reconcile their apparently disparate …

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