Women fared decidedly better than men during the most recent recession. By August 2009, the unemployment rate for men … had hit 11.0 percent, while that for women held at 8.3 percent. This 2.7 percentage point unemployment gender gap …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …