The Great Recession has renewed interest in unemployment insurance (UI) programs
around the world. At the same time, there have been important advances in both theory and …

Since 1982, all Alaskan residents have received a yearly cash dividend from the Alaska
Permanent Fund. Using the Current Population Survey and a synthetic control method, this …

We study how the recent housing boom and bust affected college enrollment during the
2000s. We exploit cross-city variation in local housing booms, which improved labor market …

Work often entails up-front effort costs in exchange for delayed benefits, and mounting
evidence documents present bias over effort in the face of such delays. This paper studies …

Providing estimable sufficient statistics to give policy prescriptions has become a
widespread approach, a well-known limitation of which is the endogeneity of sufficient …

We systematically review studies of how unemployment benefits affect unemployment
duration. Statistically significant findings are eleven times more likely to be published …

This paper studies the speed at which workers' pretax earnings respond to tax changes
along the intensive margin. We do so in the context of Germany, where a large notch in the …

Discrete location, occupation, skill, and hours choices of workers underpin their incomes.
This paper analyzes the optimal taxation of discrete income‐generating choice. It derives …

We analyse the deadweight losses of tax-induced labor misallocation in an equilibrium
model of the labour market where workers search to climb a job ladder and firms post …

This paper develops a sufficient-statistic formula for the unemployment gap—the difference
between the actual unemployment rate and the efficient unemployment rate. While lowering …