Alcohol Use During the Great Recession of 2008–2009

Changes in Safety Net Use During the Great Recession.

* Anderson: Department of Economics, Dartmouth College, 6106 Rockefeller Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, and NBER (e-mail: [email protected]); Butcher: Department of Economics, Wellesley College, Pendleton East, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481, and NBER (e-mail: [email protected]); Schanzenbach: Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 2040 Sheridan Road, Evansto...

Hospital Capital Investment During the Great Recession

Hospital capital investment is important for acquiring and maintaining technology and equipment needed to provide health care. Reduction in capital investment by a hospital has negative implications for patient outcomes. Most hospitals rely on debt and internal cash flow to fund capital investment. The great recession may have made it difficult for hospitals to borrow, thus reducing their capit...

Health Care Use, Out-of-Pocket Expenditure, and Macroeconomic Conditions During the Great Recession

We study how macroeconomic conditions during the Great Recession affected health care utilization and out-of-pocket expenditures of American households. We use two data sources: the Consumer Expenditure (CE) Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP); each has its own advantages. The CE contains quarterly frequency variables, and the SIPP provides panel data at the individ...

Unemployment and the US Housing Market during the Great Recession∗

This paper evaluates the role of unemployment scarring and fear thereof for the recent U.S. housing bust. I study a quantitative lifecycle model of the housing market, which features an income process that is consistent with the large and long-lasting impact of unemployment on future earnings documented in recent empirical work. The model features exogenous moving shocks consistent with survey ...

Staying the Course: U.S. Employment Strategy during the Great Recession