Journal Article
World Population: What Helps Explain the Explosion?
Ravikumar, B.; Arbogast, Iris (2022-09-15)
A steep decline in India’s death rate from 1950 to 2019 substantially affected the size of the global population and reduced that nation’s median age relative to the U.S.
The Regional Economist

Journal Article
Who’s Driving a Recent Decline in Life Expectancy?
Ravikumar, B.; Arbogast, Iris (2023-07-03)
Life expectancy in the U.S. and most other G-7 nations declined from 2019 to 2021. For the U.S., it was the biggest two-year drop since the early 1920s.
The Regional Economist

Journal Article
Increasing Employment by Halting Pandemic Unemployment Benefits
Dupor, Bill; Arbogast, Iris (2022-07-14)
In mid-2021, 26 states halted participation in all or some federal emergency unemployment benefits (EUB) programs before those programs' federal funding lapsed. This article uses this asynchronous EUB cessation between early- and late-halting states to estimate the causal impact of benefit cessation on employment. We find that cessation increased employment by 29 persons for every 100 (pre-halt) EUB recipients. Expressed as a number of jobs, if all states had halted EUB in June, September employment would have been 3.4 million persons higher relative to a no-halt counterfactual. Late-halting ...
Review , Volume 104 , Issue 3 , Pages 166-177

How Uneven Were the Labor Market Recoveries across U.S. States?
Arbogast, Iris; Dupor, Bill (2022-02-10)
Some states finished 2021 with unemployment rates below their pre-pandemic levels, while most had rates still above levels before COVID-19.
On the Economy

How COVID-19 Has Impacted Stock Performance by Industry
Wen, Yi; Arbogast, Iris (2021-03-21)
Aggregate market indexes such as the S&P 500 have fully recovered since the beginning of the pandemic, but not all sectors have performed equally well.
On the Economy

Journal Article
Working from Home: More Americans Are Telecommuting
Gascon, Charles S.; Arbogast, Iris; Spewak, Andrew (2019)
Americans who primarily work from home represented 3% of full-time employees in 2017, up from 0.7% in 1980.
The Regional Economist , Volume 27 , Issue 3

Ending Pandemic Unemployment Benefits Linked to Job Growth
Arbogast, Iris; Dupor, Bill (2022-08-08)
A new state-level analysis finds that ending emergency unemployment benefits had a statistically significant positive impact on employment.
On the Economy

V-Shaped Recovery Eludes G-7 Countries
Arbogast, Iris; Wen, Yi (2020-11-16)
Economic growth should overshoot its long-run trend to make up for the downturn caused by the pandemic. So far, this hasn’t happened.
On the Economy

Journal Article
How the Death Rate Affects the Aging of the US Population
Ravikumar, B.; Arbogast, Iris (2023-04-21)
What is the effect of death rates on the increased average age of the US population?
Economic Synopses , Issue 8 , Pages 2 pages

Journal Article
Long-Term Trends in Gasoline Prices
Ravikumar, B.; Arbogast, Iris (2022-06-17)
Average annual CPI inflation from 1990 to 2021 was 2.4%, while average annual gasoline price inflation was 3.9%.
Economic Synopses , Issue 14 , Pages 1-2