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Do People Care More About Inflation or Wage Growth?
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, consumer sentiment was low despite historically low unemployment and high wage growth. This same period coincided with inflation rates that were the highest in a generation.
Working Paper
The effect of ending the pandemic-related mandate of continuous Medicaid coverage on health insurance coverage
The Medicaid continuous enrollment provision, which ensured uninterrupted coverage for beneficiaries during the COVID-19 pandemic, was ended in March 2023. This unwinding process has led to large-scale Medicaid disenrollments, as states resumed their standard renewal process to evaluate enrolled individuals' eligibility status. Our analysis investigates whether resumption of states' renewal process has led to an increase in the risk of becoming uninsured for adults aged under 65 and affected their household economic well-being. Using state-month variation in the timing of the first round of ...
Working Paper
Parental Employment at the Onset of the Pandemic: Effects of Lockdowns and Government Policies
The COVID-19 pandemic had disproportionate impacts on women's employment, especially for mothers with school-age and younger children.However, the impacts likely varied depending on the type of policy response adopted by various governments. New Zealand presents a unique policy setting in which one of the strictest lockdown restrictions was combined with a generous wage subsidy scheme to secure employment. We utilize tax records to compare employment patterns of parents from the pandemic period (treatment group) to similar parents from a recent pre-pandemic period (control group). For mothers ...