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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 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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The ARRA : Some Unpleasant Welfare Arithmetic

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2012

foregone unemployment insurance about equally erode the rewards from retaining a job, or starting a new one …

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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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