STABLE INCOME, STABLE FAMILY

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D.
• 署名单位: National Bureau of Economic Research; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; State University System of Florida; Florida Gulf Coast University; Montana State University System; Montana State University Bozeman
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_01304
• 发表日期: 2025-05
• 页码: 653-667
• 关键词: consumption smoothing benefits; parental job loss; unemployment-insurance; tax credit; economic-conditions; earnings losses; MENTAL-HEALTH; wealth shocks; MARKET; LABOR

摘要

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate that higher maximum benefit levels mitigate the effects of layoffs. In particular, they mitigate increases in divorce associated with men's layoffs; increases in separations associated with women's layoffs; reductions in fertility associated with men's layoffs; and increases in fertility associated with women's layoffs.