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Antitrust Enforcement Increases Economic Activity

Babina, Tania; Barkai, Simcha; Jeffers, Jessica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We hand-collect and standardize information describing all 3,055 antitrust lawsuits brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) between 1971 and 2018. Using restricted establishment-level microdata from the U.S. Census, we compare the economic outcomes of a non-tradable industry in states...

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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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The Cyclicality of Births and Babies' Health, Revisited : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance

Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … the interaction of the aggregate unemployment rate with a measure of potential income replacement from UI. Our results … show that as UI benefit generosity reaches 100 percent income replacement, there is no effect of the unemployment rate on …

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