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Lives vs. Livelihoods : The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare
Finkelstein, Amy; Notowidigdo, Matthew J.; Schilbach, Frank - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
unemployment rate of the magnitude of the Great Recession reduces the average, annual age-adjusted mortality rate by 2.3 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486202
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Heterogeneity in Damages from A Pandemic
Finkelstein, Amy; Kocks, Geoffrey; Polyakova, Maria; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use linked survey and administrative data to document and decompose the striking differences across demographic groups in both economic and health impacts of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The impacts of the pandemic on all-cause mortality and on employment were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462706
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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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