Did the Stimulus Stimulate? Effects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

The Polarizing Effect of the Stimulus: Partisanship and Voter Responsiveness to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

We examine the effect of a sudden influx of government spending, the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), on support for the President’s party. Using a difference-indifferences design, we find that stimulus spending had a modest positive effect on Democratic vote share, but only in counties that were already Democratic-leaning. In Republican counties, by contrast, government spen...

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: a stimulus for research.

Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending at the state level: Keynesian stimulus or distributive politics?

We examine the US state-level pattern of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) spending. We relate spending to (1) Keynesian determinants of countercyclical policy, (2) congressional power and dominance, and (3) presidential electoral vote importance. We find that the ARRA is, in practice, poorly designed countercyclical stimulus. After controlling for political variables, coefficients ...

Stimulus bill promises a new era in digital health care: but american recovery and reinvestment act gives pharmacies short shrift.

and resources and as a gateway to better health outcomes more broadly, not just as a way to reduce prescription errors. President Obama provided the most recent rationale for EHRs when he linked them to job creation, mostly from sales of e-health software and hardware. The President’s support of EHRs catapulted previously landlocked congressional legislation onto the deck of the fast-moving sti...

Fiscal Spending Jobs Multipliers: Evidence from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

This paper estimates the “jobs multiplier” of fiscal spending using the state-level allocations of federal stimulus funds from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Specifically, I estimate the relationship between state-level federal ARRA spending and the change in states’ employment outcomes from the time the Act was passed (February 2009) to some later month (through June 2...