2024
“Just Right” Definitions of Local Labor Markets: Introducing SLMs, Timothy J. Bartik
The Past, Present, and Future of Long-Run Local Population Decline, Brian J. Asquith and Evan Mast
Granting Unemployment Insurance Benefits in Borderline Cases Helps Workers at Low Cost, Jonathan Cohen and Geoffrey C. Schnorr
Reduced School Tracking Increased Educational Attainment and Fertility in France, Serena Canaan
More Autonomy for Frontline Workers Supports Higher-Paying Jobs, Dylan Nelson, Nathan Wilmers, and Letian Zhang
How Higher Education Responds to Labor Market Demand, Johnathan G. Conzelmann, Steven W. Hemelt, Brad J. Hershbein, Shawn Martin, Andrew Simon, and Kevin M. Stange
How Major Tech Firms Used Illegal “No-Poach” Agreements to Control Workers’ Salaries, Matthew Gibson
Seattle’s Paid Sick Leave Law Increased Work Hours without Affecting Job Attachment, Hilary Wething and Meredith Slopen
Effects of Subsidies on the Child Care Market: Large Increases in Capacity, Small Increases in Price, Won Fy Lee, Aaron Sojourner, Elizabeth E. Davis, and Jonathan Borowsky
DACA, Mobility Investments, and Economic Outcomes of Immigrants and Natives, Jimena Villanueva Kiser and Riley Wilson
New Data Show How Far Graduates Move from Their College, and Why It Matters, Johnathan G. Conzelmann, Steven W. Hemelt, Brad J. Hershbein, Shawn Martin, Andrew Simon, and Kevin M. Stange
2023
Minimum Wage Increases Reduce Racial Disparities during Hiring, Alec Brandon, Justin E. Holz, Andrew Simon, and Haruka Uchida
School-Based Mental Health Services Can Increase Access to Care and Decrease Suicide Attempts, Ezra Golberstein, Irina Zainullina, Aaron Sojourner, and Mark A. Sander
COVID-19 and Learning Loss at Kalamazoo Public Schools, Randall W. Eberts
Gender Gaps in Employment and Earnings after Job Loss, Ria Ivandić and Anne Sophie Lassen
Can a Payroll Tax Cut for Women Narrow the Gender Gap?, Enrico Rubolino
How the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Can Anchor U.S. Workforce Development, Matthew D. Wilson, Nichola Lowe, Greg Schrock, Rumana Rabbani, and Allison Forbes
Why Are Unemployment Insurance Claims So Low?, Christopher J. O'Leary, Kenneth J. Kline, Thomas A. Stengle, and Stephen A. Wandner
How Many Independent Contractors Are There and Who Works in These Jobs?, Katharine G. Abraham, Brad J. Hershbein, Susan N. Houseman, and Beth C. Truesdale
The Child and Dependent Care Credit: Unlike Trix, Not Just for Kids, Gabrielle Pepin and Yulya Truskinovsky
2022
How Do Broad Non-Disclosure Agreements Affect Labor Markets?, Jason Sockin, Aaron Sojourner, and Evan Starr
What Happens to Residents Evicted under California’s Ellis Act?, Brian J. Asquith
‘Long Social Distancing’ Reduces Potential Output of U.S. Economy, Jose Maria Barrero
Disability Insurance Screening and Workers’ Health and Labor Market Outcomes, Alexander Ahammer and Analisa Packham
College Academic Coaching Can Increase College Success and Later Earnings, Pierre Mouganie, Serena Canaan, Stefanie Fischer, and Geoffrey C. Schnorr
What Types of Local Job Creation Most Benefit Residents?, Timothy J. Bartik
How the Great Migration Changed Black Children’s Educational Attainment, Cavit Baran, Eric Chyn, and Bryan A. Stuart
How State Governments Can Help Distressed Places, Timothy J. Bartik
Monopsony in Manufacturing, Chen Yeh, Claudia Macaluso, and Brad J. Hershbein
How Receiving a Pell Grant Affects Students’ Work Hours, Michael S. Kofoed
Place-Based Consequences of Person-Based Transfers, Brad J. Hershbein and Bryan A. Stuart
Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining?: A Test Using Dual Jobholders, Marta Lachowska, Alexandre Mas, Raffaele Saggio, and Stephen A. Woodbury
2021
Isolated States of America: State Borders, Mobility, and Labor Markets, Riley Wilson
How Does the Elimination of State Aid to For-Profit Colleges Affect Enrollment?: Evidence from California’s Reforms, Oded Gurantz, Ryan Sakoda, and Shayak Sarkar
Beyond Degrees: The Kalamazoo Promise and Workforce Outcomes, Isabel McMullen and Brad J. Hershbein
Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice, Yana Gallen and Melanie Wasserman
Youth Disconnection During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mark Borgschulte and Yuci Chen
Making the Child Care Tax Credit Permanently Refundable Could Benefit Low-Income Families, Gabrielle Pepin
COVID-19's Impacts on the Labor Market in 2020, Brad J. Hershbein and Harry J. Holzer
Job Creation Policies Can Raise Local Employment Rates, Especially for Distressed Communities, Timothy J. Bartik
2020
Income in the Off-Season: Household Adaptation to Yearly Work Interruptions, John Coglianese and Brendan M. Price
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the CARES Act on Earnings and Inequality, Guido Matias Cortes and Eliza C. Forsythe
Nudges to Increase Completion of Welfare Applications, Christopher J. O'Leary, Dallas Oberlee, and Gabrielle Pepin
Tax Credits for Child Care Increase Take Up and May Help More Mothers Work, Gabrielle Pepin
Warding Off Development: Local Control, Housing Supply, and NIMBYs, Evan Mast
Effects of Welfare Time Limits, Gabrielle Pepin
The Enduring Local Harm from Recessions, Brad J. Hershbein and Bryan A. Stuart
Most Self-Employed Workers Are Independent Contractors, Katharine G. Abraham, Brad J. Hershbein, and Susan N. Houseman
Reforming Unemployment Insurance, Christopher J. O'Leary
States Lack Adequate Unemployment Insurance Reserves, Christopher J. O'Leary
Effects of Unemployment Insurance Reforms in Brazil, Christopher J. O'Leary, Túlio Cravo, Ana Cristina Sierra, and Leandro Justino Veloso
College Attainment, Income Inequality, and Economic Security: A Simulation Exercise, Brad J. Hershbein, Melissa S. Kearney, and Luke W. Pardue
Supply Shock versus Demand Shock: The Local Effects of New Housing in Low-Income Areas, Brian J. Asquith, Evan Mast, and Davin Reed
2019
The Importance of Informal Work in Supplementing Household Income, Katharine G. Abraham and Susan N. Houseman
Is a Driverless Future Also Jobless?, Erica L. Groshen, John Paul MacDuffie, Susan Helper, and Charles Carson
Does the Healthcare Educational Market Respond to Short-Run Local Demand?, Marcus O. Dillender, Andrew Friedson, Cong Gian, and Kosali Simon
Rent Control - Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease?, Brian J. Asquith
Should We Target Jobs at Distressed Places, and If So, How?, Timothy J. Bartik
The Effect of New Market-Rate Housing Construction on the Low-Income Housing Market, Evan Mast
Multiple Jobholding: Knowing the Facts to Draw Proper Policy Conclusions, Etienne Lalé
Medical Innovation and the Employment of Cancer Patients, R. Vincent Pohl
Job-Interview Referrals Help Brazilians Find Formal-Sector Jobs, Christopher J. O'Leary, Túlio Cravo, Ana Cristina Sierra, and Leandro Justino Veloso
Can Antipoverty Policies Change Neighborhood Outcomes in the Long Run?, Brian J. Asquith
Realistic Local Job Multipliers, Timothy J. Bartik and Nathan Sotherland
[Job] Locked and [Un]loaded: The Effect of the Affordable Care Act Dependency Mandate on Reenlistment in the U.S. Army, Michael S. Kofoed and Wyatt J. Frasier
Increasing Beneficiary Retention in Food Assistance Programs, Colin Gray and Christopher J. O'Leary
Climate Change and Occupational Health: Can We Adapt?, Marcus Dillender
2018
Promise Scholarship Programs and Local Prosperity, Michelle Miller-Adams and Edward Smith
Incentives and Local Job Creation, Timothy J. Bartik
Pre-K Effectiveness at a Large Scale, Timothy J. Bartik and Brad J. Hershbein
Improving Economic Development Incentives, Timothy J. Bartik