provide a comprehensive evaluation of a reform that softened the minimum employment record condition to qualify for UI … benefits in France after 2009. Using administrative panel data matching employment and unemployment spells, we first provide … level – through a jump in transitions from employment to unemployment – and at the macro level – through the scheduling of …

We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between … provide novel evidence that infant health is countercyclical based on timing of conception, but procyclical based on time in … utero. The negative relationship between the in utero aggregate unemployment rate and infant health also disappears when …