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The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Evolving Impacts on the Labor Market: Who’s Been Hurt and What We Should Do
No full textBeyond Degrees: Longer Term Outcomes of the Kalamazoo Promise
Get PDFWe estimate the effects on workforce and location outcomes of the Kalamazoo Promise, a generous, place-based college scholarship. Drawing upon administrative unemployment insurance wage records merged with individual-level education data, we identify Promise effects by comparing eligible to ineligible graduates before and after the Promise’s initiation. We supplement this quantitative analysis with surveys and interviews. Despite earlier research showing that the Kalamazoo Promise substantially increased degree attainment, we find little evidence that the program affected average earnings within 10 years of high school graduation. However, the Kalamazoo Promise may have increased the likelihood of eligible graduates having earnings, within Michigan, in the middle of the distribution. We discuss the possible role of job availability in understanding these patterns and the implications for free-tuition college programs as a workforce development tool
Rent Control in California: Policy Review
Get PDFThe largest number of housing units subject to rent control can be found in California, but the policy environment is quite complex and is characterized by a series of interacting state and local laws. This complexity represents a significant barrier for researchers and policymakers seeking a clear and accurate picture of how rent control works in California, and how it incentivizes different behaviors among landlords and tenants alike. This technical report surveys rent control rules in California, with special attention paid to the recent statewide rent caps, historic developments, and the systems in Los Angeles and San Francisco. This report should be regarded as a selective snapshot of the current system, and researchers interested in pursuing their own analyses involving the California systems are encouraged to conduct supplemental legal research. This paper will be updated on a rolling basis as further information comes to light
Automation Workforce Productivity. How Illinois Manufacturers are Adopting Advanced Technologies: An Insight Report on Automation, Workforce, and Productivity
Get PDFEssays on Power in Labor Markets
Get PDFWorkers’ pay and working conditions can be determined not just by the productivity of their labor, but also by power and institutions. In my dissertation, I examine three aspects of power and institutions in the U.S. and U.K. labor markets: 1) the wage effects of employer concentration and worker outside options in the United States, 2) the decline of worker power and its macroeconomic implications in the United States, and 3) minimum wage compliance and enforcement in the United States and United Kingdom. Overall, the three essays underscore the importance of labor market power and institutions in the determination of wages—particularly for low- and middle-income workers. In this summary, I describe each essay in more detail and conclude with a discussion of the policy implications
Nudges to Increase Completion of Welfare Applications: Experimental Evidence from Michigan
No full textCausal Effects of Education on Longevity: Evidence from African Americans in Jim Crow Mississippi
No full textThis proposed study will provide new, rigorous evidence on the effects of education on longevity. To begin, we will digitize the Mississippi Enumeration of Educable Children, an administrative census of every child in the state of Mississippi performed biennially from 1927-1957, with additional sporadic coverage from 1906-1927 and 1957-1965. These records allow us to observe family structure, contemporaneous school enrollment status, school of attendance, educational attainment, and location of residence for every child in Mississippi. We will then link these to death records from family trees from FamilySearch, allowing us to observe the education history and death of most of our sample, especially for older cohorts. Given this novel dataset, we will then make use of school construction instruments (e.g. Rosenwald schools; Aaronson and Mazumder 2011) and school finance instruments (e.g. Jeanes fund; Kreisman 2017) as exogenous shocks to the educational attainment and education quality of Black students in Mississippi. Previous work on education and longevity has been limited to descriptive work (e.g. Lleras-Muney, Price, and Yue 2020) and studies using within-sibling-pair identification (e.g. Behrman et al. 2011); our study will provide the first evidence on the causal effect of education on longevity in the United States that fully circumvents both reverse causation concerns and selection issues that exist in this area