Replication data for: Assessing the Welfare Effects of Unemployment Benefits Using the Regression Kink Design

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Project Citation:

Landais, Camille. Replication data for: Assessing the Welfare Effects of Unemployment Benefits Using the Regression Kink Design. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2015. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114581V1

Project Description

Summary: I show how, in the tradition of the dynamic labor supply literature, one can identify the moral hazard effects and liquidity effects of unemployment insurance (UI) using variations along the time profile of unemployment benefits. I use this strategy to investigate the anatomy of labor supply responses to UI. I identify the effect of benefit level and potential duration in the regression kink design using kinks in the schedule of benefits in the US. My results suggest that the response of search effort to UI benefits is driven as much by liquidity effects as by moral hazard effects. (JEL D82, J22, J65)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
      J22 Time Allocation and Labor Supply
      J65 Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings

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