Disability and Distress: The Effect of Disability Programs on Financial Outcomes
The benefits of disability payments are easy to intuit when thinking hypothetically about the US...
Topics:
Economic Mobility & Poverty, Employment & Wages
Who is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability Programs
However, the process is much more complicated. The forms are long and complex, including detailed medical...
Conference Spotlight: Gender and the Labor Market
On March 8 and 9, 2019, BFI’s Ronzetti Initiative for the Study of Labor Markets...
Topics:
Economic Mobility & Poverty, Employment & Wages
The Aggregate Implications of Regional Business Cycles
Erik Hurst
In other words, regional economies experience business cycles that are related to but, in some...
Topics:
Employment & Wages
Friedman Forum: The Effects of Sexism on American Women: The Role of Norms vs. Discrimination
How is a woman’s life influenced by where she grew up and where she lives...
The Effects of Sexism on American Women: The Role of Norms vs. Discrimination
Kerwin Kofi Charles
What type of life experiences will these women have in terms of the work they...
Divergent Paths: A New Perspective on Earnings Differences Between Black and White Men Since 1940
Kerwin Kofi Charles
What that means is that a median black man’s earnings today, relative to a median...
Topics:
Economic Mobility & Poverty, Employment & Wages, Higher Education & Workforce Training
Friedman Forum: The Effect of Technology on the Labor Supply of Young Men and Women, Featuring Booth’s Erik Hurst
Erik Hurst
Erik Hurst, the V. Duane Rath Professor of Economics at the Booth School of Business,...