We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and
new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected …

We provide new evidence on households' labor supply responses to fatal and severe
nonfatal health shocks in the short run and medium run. To identify causal effects, we …

There is no evaluation of the consequences of Disability Insurance (DI) receipt that captures
the effects on households' net income and consumption expenditure, family labor supply, or …

Green tax reform is unpopular because, typically, the poor are hurt most by the higher prices
of carbon-intensive commodities. If revenues from a carbon tax are recycled, it may be …

We study the effectiveness of intrahousehold insurance among married couples when the
husband loses his job due to a mass layoff or plant closure. Empirical results based on …

A growing economic literature studies the optimal design of social insurance systems and
the empirical identification of welfare‐relevant externalities. In this paper, we test whether …

Due to the absence of unemployment insurance (UI) choices, the traditional approach to
estimating the value of UI is to infer it from the observed consumption response to job loss …

This paper evaluates how sick pay mandates operate at the job level in the United States.
Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate …

We combine quasi-experimental variation in spousal death and age eligibility for survivors
benefits using US tax records to study the effects on American households' labor supply and …

This paper develops a sufficient statistics framework for analyzing the welfare effects of
disability insurance (DI). We derive social‐optimality conditions for the two main DI policy …