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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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The Impacts of Covid-19 Illnesses on Workers

Goda, Gopi Shah; Soltas, Evan J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We show that Covid-19 illnesses persistently reduce labor supply. Using an event study, we estimate that workers with week-long Covid-19 work absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise-similar workers who do not miss a week of work...

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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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