Business cycle recoveries have slowed in recent decades. This slowdown comes entirely
from female employment, as women's employment rates converged toward men's during the …

In this article, we study the labour supply effects and the redistributional consequences of
the US social security system. We focus particularly on auxiliary benefits, where eligibility is …

We study direct and indirect effects of Chinese import competition on union membership in
the United States, 1990–2014. Import competition in manufacturing induced a modest …

I document a small spousal earnings response to the job displacement of the family head.
The response is even smaller in recessions, when earnings losses are larger and additional …

White, non-college-educated Americans born in the 1960s face shorter life expectancies,
higher medical expenses, and lower wages per unit of human capital compared with those …

White, non-college-educated Americans born in the 1960s face shorter life expectancies,
higher medical expenses, and lower wages per unit of human capital compared with those …

The US economy has recently experienced two, seemingly unrelated, phenomena: a large
increase in post-retirement life expectancy and a major expansion in securitization and …

This paper analyzes the welfare effects of unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model,
focusing on partial vs. general equilibrium effects. We study an OLG economy with learning …

We study how import competition affects union membership in the United States, adapting
identification strategies from recent work on imports from China. Within manufacturing, union …

The US economy has recently experienced two salient, seemingly unrelated, phenomena: a
large increase in post-retirement life expectancy and a major expansion in securitization. We …