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• Subsidizing Layoffs

  posted to Supply and Demand (in that order) on Sat 8th Jun 13

  I noticed this in an Urban Institute report:Some largefirm interviewees reported that before ARRA they provided some amount of free or reduced cost COBRA coverage for laidoff workers, based upon the prior duration of employment. ...Several of these companies

• Andrew Greeley: Controversy Needs Careful Measurement

  posted to Supply and Demand (in that order) on Wed 5th Jun 13

  Copyright, The New York Times CompanyThe Rev. Andrew M. Greeley, who died on Thursday, was a creative and dedicated social scientist who taught economists and others that scholars help resolve controversies by making careful measurements.Father Greeley was

• Do Recessions Save Lives?

  posted to Supply and Demand (in that order) on Wed 29th May 13

  Copyright, The New York Times CompanyMore people die in economic expansions, and fewer die in recessions. Whether and how policy makers should heed this pattern depends on the hitherto unknown links between mortality and economic activity.Recessions can be

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• The Holiday Stimulus Package

  posted to Supply and Demand (in that order) on Thu 23rd Dec 10

  Copyright, The New York Times CompanyWith Christmas each year comes lessons about the role of demand in the economy. Retail sales are typically 15 to 20 percent higher in December than they are in September, October and November, and 30 percent higher than

• Does Labor Supply Matter During a Recession? Evidence from the Seasonal Cycle

  posted to Supply and Demand (in that order) on Tue 14th Sep 10

  During the recession of 2008-9, the federal government took a number of steps to help citizens and the economy, including expansion of food stamps and unemployment insurance, helping financially distressed homeowners refinance their mortgages, and offering

• Does It Matter Whether Unemployment is Socially Productive?

  posted to Supply and Demand (in that order) on Thu 25th Mar 10

  Evidence that unemployment insurance causes more unemployment is easy to find. So a few stimulus law advocates (recall that actually and prospective stimulus laws spend significant $ on unemployment insurance programs) have embraced that evidence, claiming

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• Henderson on Mulligan's Redistribution Recession, by David Henderson

  posted to EconLog on Tue 2nd Apr 13

  Casey Mulligan's cleverly titled book, The Redistribution Recession, could have been one of the most important economics books in 2012. It makes the case that a major reason U.S. employment has been so low is that during the recent recession, the welfare state

• The Year in Review II: Yet More Fantastical Pseudo Economics

  posted to Econbrowser on Sat 29th Dec 12

  Time to emulate the medias "year in review" pieces, with my own take on the most outrageous, nonsensical assertions presented in the guise of analysis. Here are my ten most hilariously deluded excursions into the fantasy world from my postings to Econbrowser.

• Mulligan and Laffer

  posted to Economist's View on Thu 26th Jul 12

  Casey Mulligan says that trying to help the poor "had the unintended consequence of deepening-if not causing-the recession." There was a financial crisis, but that wasn't the problem according to his story, and it wasn't the decline in housing wealth.