Bubonya, Melisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Christensen, Daniel - 2018
This paper analyzes the effects of "shocks" to community-level unemployment expectations, induced by the onset of the … study as despite little change in actual unemployment rates, levels of economic uncertainty grew. This affords us the … identify plausibly causal effects. We find, for boys, there is no detectable effect of community-level unemployment …