Using the eye of the storm to predict the wave of Covid-19 UI claims
We leverage an event-study research design focused on the seven costliest hurricanes to hit the US mainland since 2004 to identify the elasticity of unemployment insurance filings with respect to search intensity. Applying our elasticity estimate to the state-level Google Trends indexes for the topi...
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Cs. Económicas |
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| Other Authors: | Aaronson, Daniel |
| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chicago, Il. :
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago,
2020
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| Series: |
Working papers ;
no. 10 |
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| Online Access: |
https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/working-papers/2020/2020-10 |