Job loss is an involuntary disruptive life event with a far-reaching impact on workers' life
trajectories. Its incidence among growing segments of the workforce, alongside the recent …

Two cross-temporal meta-analyses find large generational increases in psychopathology
among American college students (N= 63,706) between 1938 and 2007 on the MMPI and …

Objectives Existing literature on how employment loss affects depression has struggled to
address potential endogeneity bias caused by reverse causality. The COVID-19 pandemic …

The COVID-19 economic crash is idiosyncratic because of its virtual standstill of economic
activity. We therefore ask how individual labor market experiences are related to the …

The COVID-19 outbreak, which was followed by home confinement, is expected to have had
profound negative impact on the mental health of people. Associated factors, such as losing …

To what extent do personal circumstances, as compared to ideological dispositions, drive
voters' preferences on welfare policy? Addressing this question is difficult because a …

We develop new evidence on the cumulative earnings losses associated with job
displacement, drawing on longitudinal Social Security records for US workers from 1974 to …

We investigate whether individuals' risk preferences change after experiencing a natural
disaster, specifically, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Exploiting the panels of …

Objectives. To characterize which occupations in the United States could likely work from
home during a pandemic such as COVID-19. Methods. I merged 2018 US Bureau of Labor …

We use administrative data on the quarterly employment and earnings of Pennsylvanian
workers in the 1970s and 1980s matched to Social Security Administration death records …