The Effect of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment Insurance Receipt: New Evidence from a Regression Kink Design in Missouri, 2003-2013

David Card, Andrew Johnston, Pauline Leung, Alexandre Mas and Zhuan Pei
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Pauline Leung: Princeton University
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Working Papers from Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section.

Abstract: We provide new evidence on the effect of the unemployment insurance (UI) weekly benefit amount on unemployment insurance spells based on administrative data from the state of Missouri covering the period 2003-2013. Identification comes from a regression kink design that exploits the quasi-experimental variation around the kink in the UI benefit schedule. We find that UI durations are more responsive to benefit levels during the recession and its aftermath, with an elasticity between 0.65 and 0.9 as compared to about 0.35 pre-recession.

Keywords: Missouri (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 J65 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-01
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