Recent efforts to expand unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility are expected to increase low-earning workers' access …

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 …

change in the unemployment rate. Many estimated effects are larger for males than females. Notably, strong evidence of …

week in unemployment insurance (UI) benefit payments from late March through July 2020. This unprecedented increase in UI …

We present experimental evidence on the effects of four U.S. reemployment programs for youth Unemployment Insurance (UI …

We examine how a 16-week cut in potential unemployment insurance (UI) duration in Missouri affected search behavior of … estimates to simulate the unemployment rate assuming no market-level externalities. The simulated response, which implies almost … a one percentage point decline in the unemployment rate, closely approximates the estimated change in the unemployment …