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- Title
The Effect of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment Insurance Receipt: New Evidence from a Regression Kink Design in Missouri, 2003-2013<sup>†</sup>.
- Authors
Card, David; Johnston, Andrew; Leung, Pauline; Mas, Alexandre; Pei, Zhuan
- Abstract
We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment insurance spells based on administrative data from the state of Missouri covering the period 2003-2013. Identification comes from a regression kink design that exploits the quasi-experimental variation around the kink in the UI benefit schedule. We find that UI durations are more responsive to benefit levels during the recession and its aftermath, with an elasticity between 0.65 and 0.9 as compared to about 0.35 pre-recession.
- Subjects
MISSOURI; UNEMPLOYMENT insurance claimants; DURATION of unemployment; UNEMPLOYMENT insurance; EFFECT of unemployment insurance on unemployment; RECESSIONS; REGRESSION discontinuity design; ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
American Economic Review, 2015, Vol 105, Issue 5, p126
- ISSN
0002-8282
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1257/aer.p20151061