Details about Scott R. Baker

Homepage:	https://sites.google.com/site/srbaker/
Workplace:	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), (more information at EDIRC) Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2019

Policy News and Stock Market Volatility
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (144)

2018

Measurement Error in Imputed Consumption
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (10)

2017

Shopping for Lower Sales Tax Rates
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (15)
See also Journal Article Shopping for Lower Sales Tax Rates, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association (2021) View citations (15) (2021)

2015

Income Changes and Consumption: Evidence from the 2013 Federal Government Shutdown
2015 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics View citations (13)
See also Journal Article Income Changes and Consumption: Evidence from the 2013 Federal Government Shutdown, Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics (2017) View citations (66) (2017)
Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (276)
Also in CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2015) View citations (269)
LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2015) View citations (258)
Economics Working Papers, Hoover Institution, Stanford University (2015) View citations (263)
CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2015) View citations (269)
See also Journal Article Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College (2016) View citations (4521) (2016)

2014

Why Has U.S. Policy Uncertainty Risen Since 1960?
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (74)
See also Journal Article Why Has US Policy Uncertainty Risen since 1960?, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2014) View citations (97) (2014)

2013

Does Uncertainty Reduce Growth? Using Disasters as Natural Experiments
NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (170)
Also in CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2013) View citations (181)
LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2013) View citations (4)
Effects of Immigrant Legalization on Crime: The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act
Discussion Papers, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research View citations (9)

2012

Economic Recovery and Policy Uncertainty
CEP US Election Analysis Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE View citations (70)
Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2012) View citations (68)
Has Economic Policy Uncertainty Hampered the Recovery?
Working Papers, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State View citations (34)
See also Chapter Has Economic Policy Uncertainty Hampered the Recovery?, Book Chapters, Hoover Institution, Stanford University (2012) View citations (82) (2012)
Policy uncertainty: a new indicator
CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE View citations (11)

2011

What Drives Job Search? Evidence from Google Search Data
Discussion Papers, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research View citations (17)

2010

Effects of Legal Status and Health Service Availability on Mortality
Discussion Papers, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research View citations (6)

Journal Articles

2025

Correlation in state and local tax changes
Journal of Public Economics, 2025, 242, (C)
See also Working Paper Correlation in State and Local Tax Changes, NBER Working Papers (2024) (2024)

2024

Financial returns to household inventory management
Journal of Financial Economics, 2024, 151, (C)
See also Working Paper Financial Returns to Household Inventory Management, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series (2020) View citations (3) (2020)
Using Disasters to Estimate the Impact of Uncertainty
The Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91, (2), 720-747 View citations (6)
See also Working Paper Using Disasters to Estimate the Impact of Uncertainty, NBER Working Papers (2020) View citations (44) (2020)

2023

Customer Churn and Intangible Capital
Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics, 2023, 1, (3), 447 - 505
Income, Liquidity, and the Consumption Response to the 2020 Economic Stimulus Payments*
Review of Finance, 2023, 27, (6), 2271-2304 View citations (13)
See also Working Paper Income, Liquidity, and the Consumption Response to the 2020 Economic Stimulus Payments, Working Papers (2020) View citations (117) (2020)

2022

Consumption Imputation Errors in Administrative Data
The Review of Financial Studies, 2022, 35, (6), 3021-3059 View citations (2)
Household Financial Transaction Data
Annual Review of Economics, 2022, 14, (1), 47-67 View citations (3)
See also Working Paper Household Financial Transaction Data, NBER Working Papers (2021) View citations (2) (2021)
State-level economic policy uncertainty
Journal of Monetary Economics, 2022, 132, (C), 81-99 View citations (32)
See also Working Paper State-Level Economic Policy Uncertainty, IZA Discussion Papers (2022) View citations (31) (2022)

2021

Income Fluctuations and Firm Choice
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2021, 56, (6), 2208-2236
See also Working Paper Income Fluctuations and Firm Choice, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series (2020) (2020)
Shopping for Lower Sales Tax Rates
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2021, 13, (3), 209-50 View citations (15)
See also Working Paper Shopping for Lower Sales Tax Rates, NBER Working Papers (2017) View citations (15) (2017)

2020

Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 191, (C) View citations (215)
See also Working Paper Economic Uncertainty Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Working Papers (2020) View citations (279) (2020)
Expectation Formation Following Large, Unexpected Shocks
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102, (2), 287-303 View citations (37)

2019

Do Household Finances Constrain Unconventional Fiscal Policy?
Tax Policy and the Economy, 2019, 33, (1), 1 - 32 View citations (11)
See also Working Paper Do Household Finances Constrain Unconventional Fiscal Policy?, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series (2020) (2020)
Chapter Do Household Finances Constrain Unconventional Fiscal Policy?, NBER Chapters, 2018 (2018) View citations (2) (2018)

2018

Debt and the Response to Household Income Shocks: Validation and Application of Linked Financial Account Data
Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126, (4), 1504 - 1557 View citations (159)

2017

Income Changes and Consumption: Evidence from the 2013 Federal Government Shutdown
Review of Economic Dynamics, 2017, 23, 99-124 View citations (66)
See also Working Paper Income Changes and Consumption: Evidence from the 2013 Federal Government Shutdown, 2015 Meeting Papers (2015) View citations (13) (2015)
Software Item Code and data files for "Income Changes and Consumption: Evidence from the 2013 Federal Government Shutdown", Computer Codes (2016) (2016)
The Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Job Search: Evidence from Google Search Data
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99, (5), 756–768 View citations (113)

2016

Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, 131, (4), 1593-1636 View citations (4521)
See also Working Paper Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty, NBER Working Papers (2015) View citations (276) (2015)

2015

Effects of Immigrant Legalization on Crime
American Economic Review, 2015, 105, (5), 210-13 View citations (42)

2014

Why Has US Policy Uncertainty Risen since 1960?
American Economic Review, 2014, 104, (5), 56-60 View citations (97)
See also Working Paper Why Has U.S. Policy Uncertainty Risen Since 1960?, NBER Working Papers (2014) View citations (74) (2014)

Undated

How Does Household Spending Respond to an Epidemic? Consumption during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic
The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 10, (4), 834-862 View citations (213)
See also Working Paper How Does Household Spending Respond to an Epidemic? Consumption During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic, NBER Working Papers (2020) View citations (446) (2020)
The Unprecedented Stock Market Reaction to COVID-19
The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 10, (4), 742-758 View citations (194)

Chapters

2018

Do Household Finances Constrain Unconventional Fiscal Policy?
A chapter in Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 33, 2018 View citations (2)
See also Working Paper Do Household Finances Constrain Unconventional Fiscal Policy?, Swiss Finance Institute (2020) (2020)
Journal Article Do Household Finances Constrain Unconventional Fiscal Policy?, University of Chicago Press (2019) View citations (11) (2019)

2012

Has Economic Policy Uncertainty Hampered the Recovery?
Chapter 3 in Government Policies and the Delayed Economic Recovery, 2012 View citations (82)
See also Working Paper Has Economic Policy Uncertainty Hampered the Recovery?, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State (2012) View citations (34) (2012)

Software Items

2016

Code and data files for "Income Changes and Consumption: Evidence from the 2013 Federal Government Shutdown"
Computer Codes, Review of Economic Dynamics
See also Journal Article Income Changes and Consumption: Evidence from the 2013 Federal Government Shutdown, Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics (2017) View citations (66) (2017)