This paper analyzes the responses to questions about teleworking and lost work in a special CPS supplement starting in May 2020. After using the new CPS data on telework due to the pandemic to refine the able to telework scheme initially proposed by Dingel and Neiman, we apply the revised...

We use data from the Current Population Survey collected both before and after Hurricane Katrina to estimate the impact of Katrina on the labor market outcomes of evacuees. Our estimates are based on a difference-in-differences strategy that compares evacuees to all residents of Katrina-affected...

This paper examines the decision of Hurricane Katrina evacuees to return to their pre- Katrina areas and documents how the composition of the Katrina-affected region changed over time. Using data from the Current Population Survey, we show that an evacuee’s age and the severity of damage in an...