Stable Income, Stable Family
利用美国各州失业保险金最高限额随时间的变化，比较被解雇与未被解雇的工人，发现更高的失业保险金能缓解解雇对离婚和生育的负面影响。
Abstract We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons across workers who have been laid off and those that have not been laid off. The results indicate that higher maximum benefit levels mitigate the effects of layoffs. In particular, they mitigate increases in divorce associated with men’s layoffs; increases in separations associated with women’s layoffs; reductions in fertility associated with men’s layoffs; and increases in fertility associated with women’s layoffs.