2021
The best medicine for a COVID-19 economy? More education and training, John C. Austin and Michelle Miller-Adams
Source: The Hill, October 2, 2020
Publication: Periodical Articles
Early childhood programs are key to a stronger Michigan post-COVID, Timothy J. Bartik
Source: Bridge Michigan, March 12, 2021
Publication: Periodical Articles
Helping Distressed Communities with a New Federal Block Grant and Curbs to Excessive Incentives, Timothy J. Bartik
Source: Site Selection Magazine, November 2020
Publication: Periodical Articles
Rethinking Tax Incentives, Timothy J. Bartik
Source: Perspectives on Work 22 (2018): 62-64
Publication: Periodical Articles
The COVID-19 pandemic’s evolving impacts on the labour market: Who’s been hurt and what we should do, Brad J. Hershbein and Harry J. Holzer
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Michigan is offering free college for essential workers. The rest of the country should follow suit, Max Lubin and Michelle Miller-Adams
Source: Business Insider, March 22, 2021
Publication: Periodical Articles
COVID-19 recovery is the time for free college, Michelle Miller-Adams and John C. Austin
Source: The Hill, February 11, 2021
Publication: Periodical Articles
Longer-Run Effects of Anti-Poverty Policies on Disadvantaged Neighborhoods, David Neumark, Brian Asquith, and Brittany Bass
Source: Contemporary Economic Policy 38(3): 409-434
Publication: Journal Articles
Child care tax credit can end no-win choice for working parents, Gabrielle Pepin
Source: The Hill, March 30, 2021
Publication: Periodical Articles
2020
Policies to improve workforce services for older Americans, Katharine G. Abraham and Susan N. Houseman
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Since Work Is Rare, It’s Time to Share, Katharine G. Abraham and Susan N. Houseman
Source: Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2020
Publication: Periodical Articles
Extending Unemployment Insurance Benefits to Workers in Precarious and Nonstandard Arrangements, Katharine G. Abraham, Susan N. Houseman, and Christopher J. O'Leary
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Measuring Alternative Work Arrangements for Research and Policy, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publication: Books
Why COVID-19 hit Michigan so hard, John C. Austin and Brad J. Hershbein
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Have We Reached Foxconn Level 5?, Timothy J. Bartik
Source: Site Selection Magazine, November 2018
Publication: Periodical Articles
Investments Needed to Help Localities Recover from Pandemic, Timothy J. Bartik
Source: Virginia Economic Review (Second Quarter 2020)
Publication: Journal Articles
Reforming Economic Development Incentives, Timothy J. Bartik
Source: Government Finance Review, April 2020
Publication: Periodical Articles
Smart Place-Based Policies Can Improve Local Labor Markets, Timothy J. Bartik
Source: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 39(3): 844-851
Publication: Journal Articles
Using Place-Based Jobs Policies to Help Distressed Communities, Timothy J. Bartik
Source: Journal of Economic Perspectives 34(3): 99-127
Publication: Journal Articles
Major Decisions: What Graduates Earn Over Their Lifetimes, Kristen E. Broady and Brad J. Hershbein
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Heterogeneous effects of Brazilian unemployment insurance reforms on layoffs, Túlio Cravo, Christopher J. O'Leary, Ana Cristina Sierra, and Leandro Justino Veloso
Source: Economics Letters 197(2020)
Publication: Journal Articles
An Economic and Fiscal Impact Assessment of the Transformational Brownfield Plan Submitted by Bedrock Management Services, LLC: Hudson’s Block, Monroe Blocks, One Campus Martius Expansion, and Book Building and Book Tower Redevelopment Project, Gabriel Ehrlich, Donald Grimes, Michael McWilliams, and Jim Robey
Publication: External Papers and Reports
An Economic and Fiscal Impact Assessment of the Transformational Brownfield Plan Submitted by Paper City Development, LLC: Vicksburg Paper Mill Redevelopment Project, Gabriel Ehrlich, Donald Grimes, Michael McWilliams, and Jim Robey
Publication: External Papers and Reports
How Many Americans Have Lost Jobs with Employer Health Coverage During the Pandemic?, Paul Fronstin and Stephen A. Woodbury
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Heterogeneity in the effect of federal spending on local crime: Evidence from causal forests, Ian Hoffman and Evan Mast
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics 78(September 2019)
Publication: Journal Articles
From time use to contingent work to labor supply: thoughts on the contributions of Alan Kreuger, Michael Horrigan
Source: Business Economics 55: 10-17
Publication: Journal Articles
IZA COVID-19 Crisis Response Monitoring United States, Susan N. Houseman
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Do Firm Effects Drift? Evidence from Washington Administrative Data, Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele D. Saggio, and Stephen A. Woodbury
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Sources of Displaced Workers' Long-Term Earnings Losses, Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, and Stephen A. Woodbury
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Experience Rating and the Dynamics of Financing Unemployment Insurance, Marta Lachowska, Wayne Vroman, and Stephen A. Woodbury
Source: National Tax Journal 73(3): 673-698
Publication: Journal Articles
Unemployment Insurance and Means-Tested Program Interactions: Evidence from Administrative Data, Pauline Leung and Christopher J. O'Leary
Source: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 12(2): 159-192
Publication: Journal Articles
Race to the Bottom? Local Tax Break Competition and Business Location, Evan Mast
Source: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 12(1): 288-317
Publication: Journal Articles
Lessons from the American Federal‐State Unemployment Insurance System for a European Unemployment Benefits System, Christopher J. O'Leary, Burt S. Barnow, and Karolien Lenaerts
Source: International Social Security Review 73(1): 3-34 (2020)
Publication: Journal Articles
2019
Making Ends Meet: The Role of Informal Work in Supplementing Americans’ Income, Katharine G. Abraham and Susan N. Houseman
Source: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(5): 110-131
Publication: Journal Articles
Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance, David S. Lee, Pauline Leung, Christopher J. O'Leary, Zhuan Pei, and Simon Quach
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance, David S. Lee, Pauline Leung, Christopher J. O'Leary, Zhuan Pei, and Simon Quach
Publication: External Papers and Reports
2018
US Fertility Rates and Childbearing in American Economic History, 1800-2010, Martha J. Bailey and Brad J. Hershbein
Source: The Oxford Handbook of American Economic History, Volume 1. Louis P. Cain, Price V. Fishback, Paul W. Rhode, eds. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, pp. 75-100
Publication: Book Chapters
College Does Help the Poor, Timothy J. Bartik and Brad J. Hershbein
Source: New York Times, May 23, 2018
Publication: Periodical Articles
What happens when the insurer can say no? Assessing prior authorization as a tool to prevent high-risk prescriptions and to lower costs, Marcus Dillender
Source: Journal of Public Economics 165(2018): 170-200
Publication: Journal Articles
Discussion for JME special Issue: APST paper, Brad J. Hershbein
Source: Journal of Monetary Economics 97(2018): 68-70
Publication: Journal Articles
Do Recessions Accelerate Routine-Biased Technological Change? Evidence from Vacancy Postings, Brad J. Hershbein and Lisa B. Kahn
Source: American Economic Review 108(7): 1737-72
Publication: Journal Articles
Is Automation Really to Blame for Lost Manufacturing Jobs? What the Conventional Wisdom Gets Wrong, Susan N. Houseman
Source: Foreign Affairs, September 7, 2018
Publication: Periodical Articles
The Effect of Public Pension Wealth on Saving and Expenditure, Marta Lachowska and Michał Myck
Source: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 10(3): 284-308
Publication: Journal Articles
Longer-Run Effects of Anti-Poverty Policies on Disadvantaged Neighborhoods, David Neumark, Brian J. Asquith, and Brittany Bass
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Public Employment Policy for an Aging Workforce, Stephen A. Wandner, David E. Balducchi, and Christopher J. O'Leary
Source: Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine 4(2018): 1-13
Publication: Journal Articles
2017
The Effect of Work First Job Placements on the Distribution of Earnings: An Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression Approach, David H. Autor, Susan Houseman, and Sari Pekkala Kerr
Source: Journal of Labor Economics 35(1) (January 2017): 149-190
Publication: Journal Articles
Charles Ballard Interview, Justin Carinci
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Erica Groshen Interview, Justin Carinci
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Using Behavioral Insights to Improve Take-Up of a Reemployment Program: Trial Design and Findings, Matthew Darling, Christopher J. O'Leary, Irma L. Perez-Johnson, Jaclyn Lefkowitz, Kenneth J. Kline, Ben Damerow, Randall W. Eberts, Samia Amin, and Greg Chojnacki
Publication: External Papers and Reports
English Skills and the Health Insurance Coverage of Immigrants, Marcus Dillender
Source: American Journal of Health Economics 3(3)(2017): 312-345
Publication: Journal Articles
Medicaid, family spending, and the financial implications of crowd-out, Marcus Dillender
Source: Journal of Health Economics 53 (May 2017): 1-16
Publication: Journal Articles
Valuing a Mature Highway System: In Search of the Holy Grail, Randall W. Eberts
Source: TR News 309 (May-June 2017): 24-29.
Publication: Periodical Articles
The Great Recession Drastically Changed the Skills Employers Want, Brad J. Hershbein and Lisa B. Kahn
Source: Harvard Business Review, October 4, 2017
Publication: Periodical Articles
Demonstration and Evaluation of the Short-Time Compensation Program in Iowa and Oregon: Final Report, Susan Houseman, Christopher J. O'Leary, Katharine G. Abraham, Frank Bennici, Susan Labin, and Richard Sigman
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Outside Options and Wages: What Can We Learn from Subjective Assessments?, Marta Lachowska
Source: Empirical Economics:52(1): 79-121
Publication: Journal Articles
The Effect of Income on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from the 2008 Economic Stimulus Tax Rebates, Marta Lachowska
Source: Journal of Human Resources 52(2)(Spring 2017): 374-417
Publication: Journal Articles
Heterogeneous Amenity Spillovers of Local Economic Shocks, Evan Mast
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Information Frictions & Insurer Plan Design: Evidence from Medicare Advantage, Evan Mast
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Adequacy of Workers' Compensation Income Benefits in Michigan, Bogdan Savych and H. Allan Hunt
Publication: External Papers and Reports
A Comparative Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Financing Methods, Wayne Vroman, Elaine Maag, Christopher J. O'Leary, and Stephen A. Woodbury
Publication: External Papers and Reports
2016
Labor-Demand-Side Economic Development Incentives and Urban Opportunity, Timothy J. Bartik
Source: Shared Prosperity in America's Communities, Susan M. Wachtner and Lei Ding, eds. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 129-150
Publication: Book Chapters
The Merits of Universal Scholarships: Benefit-Cost Evidence from the Kalamazoo Promise, Timothy J. Bartik, Brad J. Hershbein, and Marta Lachowska
Source: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 7(3): 400-433
Publication: Journal Articles
Encouragement Emails Increase Participation in Reemployment Services, Matthew Darling, Christopher J. O'Leary, Irma L. Perez-Johnson, Jaclyn Lefkowitz, Kenneth J. Kline, Ben Damerow, and Randall W. Eberts
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Social Security and Divorce, Marcus Dillender
Source: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 16(2)(April 2016): 931-971
Publication: Journal Articles
The impact of a closed formulary on prescribing patterns in the treatment of injured workers, Marcus Dillender
Source: Economics Letters 145(2016): 88-91
Publication: Journal Articles
Health insurance reform and part-time work: Evidence from Massachusetts, Marcus Dillender, Carolyn J. Heinrich, and Susan Houseman
Source: Labour Economics 43(2016): 151-158
Publication: Journal Articles
U.S. Employment Outlook for 2016, Randall W. Eberts
Source: International Labor Brief 14(2)(February 2016): 4-17. English prepublication version
Publication: Periodical Articles
Evaluation of the Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge Grants: Interim Findings on Multiagency Collaboration and Cluster Progress, Megan Hague Angus, Jeanne Bellotti, Kevin Hollenbeck, and Brittany English
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Expenditure and Confidence: Using Daily Data to Identify Shocks to Consumer Confidence, Marta Lachowska
Source: Oxford Economic Papers 68(4)(2016): 920-944
Publication: Journal Articles
Effects of the unemployment insurance work test on long-term employment outcomes, Marta Lachowska, Merve Meral, and Stephen A. Woodbury
Source: Labour Economics 41(2016): 246-265
Publication: Journal Articles
2015
How Effects of Local Labor Demand Shocks Vary with the Initial Local Unemployment Rate, Timothy J. Bartik
Source: Growth and Change 46(4) (December 2015): 529-557
Publication: Journal Articles
The Social Value of Job Loss and Its Effect on the Costs of U.S. Environmental Regulations, Timothy J. Bartik
Source: Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (Summer 2015) 9 (2): 179-197
Publication: Journal Articles
Health Insurance and Labor Force Participation: What Legal Recognition Does for Same-Sex Couples, Marcus Dillender
Source: Contemporary Economic Policy
Publication: Journal Articles
The effect of health insurance on workers' compensation filing: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act's age-based threshold for dependent coverage, Marcus Dillender
Source: Journal of Health Economics 43(September 2015): 204-228
Publication: Journal Articles
The Effect of Medicare Eligibility on Spousal Insurance Coverage, Marcus Dillender and Karen Mulligan
Source: Health Economics 25(5): 591-605 (May 2016)
Publication: Journal Articles
Toward a More Intelligent Workforce Development System, Randall W. Eberts
Source: Transforming U.S. Workforce Development Policies for the 21st Century. Carl Van Horn, Tammy Edwards, Todd Greene, eds. Atlanta, GA: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 2015. pp. 383-410.
Publication: Book Chapters
Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED), Nancy Hewat and Kevin Hollenbeck
Source: Transforming U.S. Workforce Development Policies for the 21st Century. Carl Van Horn, Tammy Edwards, Todd Greene, eds. Atlanta, GA: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 2015. pp. 325-339.
Publication: Book Chapters
Promoting Retention or Reemployment of Workers after a Significant Injury or Illness, Kevin Hollenbeck
Publication: External Papers and Reports
The Effects of Eliminating the Work Search Requirement on Job Match Quality and Other Long-Term Employment Outcomes, Marta Lachowska, Merve Meral, and Stephen A. Woodbury
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Selected Public Workforce Development Programs in the United States: Lessons Learned for Older Workers, Stephen A. Wandner, David E. Balducchi, and Christopher J. O'Leary
Publication: External Papers and Reports
2014
Short-Time Compensation as a Tool to Mitigate Job Loss? Evidence on the U.S. Experience During the Recent Recession, Katharine G. Abraham and Susan Houseman
Source: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
Publication: Journal Articles
Proposal 12: Encouraging Work Sharing to Reduce Unemployment, Katharine G. Abraham and Susan N. Houseman
Source: Policies to Address Poverty in America, Melissa S. Kearney and Benjamin H. Harris, eds. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution. 2014.
Publication: Book Chapters
Is There a Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"?: Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 US Fertility Decline, Martha J. Bailey, Melanie Guldi, and Brad J. Hershbein
Source: Human Capital in History: The American Record, Leah P. Boustan, Carola Frydman, and Robert A. Margo, eds. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. pp. 273-312
Publication: Book Chapters
The economic payoffs of early childhood education, Timothy J. Bartik
Source: Family Focus … on Early Childhood Summer 2014
Publication: Periodical Articles
Simulating the Effects of the Tax Credit Program of the Michigan Economic Growth Authority on Job Creation and Fiscal Benefits, Timothy J. Bartik and George Erickcek
Source: Economic Development Quarterly
Publication: Journal Articles
The Kalamazoo Promise Scholarship, Timothy J. Bartik and Marta Lachowska
Source: EducationNext 14(2) (Spring 2014): 72-78
Publication: Journal Articles
Health Insurance Tax Credits, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Health Insurance Coverage of Single Mothers, Merve Cebi and Stephen A. Woodbury
Source: Health Economics 23(5)(2014): 501-515
Publication: Journal Articles
Do more health insurance options lead to higher wages? Evidence from states extending dependent coverage, Marcus Dillender
Source: Journal of Health Economics 36(1)(2014): 84-97
Publication: Journal Articles
Employment and Skills Strategies in the United States: OECD Reviews on Local Job Creation, Randall W. Eberts
Publication: External Papers and Reports
U.S. Employment Outlook for 2014: Can the U.S. Economy Stand on Its Own?, Randall W. Eberts
Source: International Labor Brief 12(2)(February): 5-16. English prepublication version
Publication: Periodical Articles
Improving the Implementation and Effectiveness of Out-of-School-Time Tutoring, Carolyn J. Heinrich, Patricia Burch, Annalee Good, Rudy Acosta, Huiping Cheng, Marcus Dillender, Christi Kirshbaum, Hiren Nisar, and Mary Stewart
Source: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 33(2)(Spring2014):471-494
Publication: Journal Articles
College Costs: Students Can't Afford Not to Know, Brad J. Hershbein and Kevin Hollenbeck
Publication: External Papers and Reports
The Role of Manufacturing in a Jobs Recovery, Susan Houseman
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Temporary agency work, Susan N. Houseman
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Full Employment Requires Job Growth in Manufacturing, Reduction in Trade Deficit / Commentary, Susan N. Houseman and Dean Baker
Source: CQ Roll Call, April 2, 2014
Publication: Periodical Articles
Transportation Investments in Response to Economic Downturns, National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Economic and Employment Benefits of Transportation Investments in Response to Economic Downturns and Randall W. Eberts , Contributor
Publication: External Papers and Reports
Financing Unemployment Insurance, Wayne Vroman and Stephen A. Woodbury
Source: National Tax Journal, 67(1) (March 2014): 253-268
Publication: Journal Articles
Public workforce programs during the Great Recession, Stephen A. Wandner and Randall W. Eberts
Source: Monthly Labor Review, July 2014: 1-18
Publication: Journal Articles
2013
Early Childhood Programs as an Economic Development Tool: Investing Early to Prepare the Future Workforce, Timothy J. Bartik
Source: Preparing Wisconsin's Youth for Success in the Workforce. Madison, WI: Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars, 2013. pp. 27-41
Publication: Book Chapters
The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Poverty, edited by Philip N. Jefferson, Timothy J. Bartik , Reviewer
Source: Journal of Regional Science 53(4): 728-730
Publication: Reviews