Living Arrangements, Doubling Up, and the Great Recession: Was This Time Different?
研究大衰退期间家庭居住安排的变化，发现虽然居住安排具有周期性，但变化幅度很小，且与以往衰退相比并无显著差异。
The Great Recession marks the worst downturn since those of the early 1980s. A large literature considers how the public safety net responded to this shock. We instead consider the responsiveness of one dimension of the private safety net. Families can react to negative shocks by moving in with relatives or downsizing. We use across-state over-time variation to estimate the effects of cycles on living arrangements, paying particular attention to young adults. We find living arrangements are cyclical, but effects are small. Surprisingly given the press attention, we find no evidence that things are different in the Great Recession.