Honors Thesis, published and won best undergraduate paper award at Minnesota Economics Association 2022 Conference!
Despite their importance in the social safety net, Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits are expected to increase unemployment duration. I find that males, on average, face a greater drop in unemployment than females when (UI) is no longer offered in their respective state. Male’s unemployment rate dropped more by a magnitude of 0.7 percent compared to female’s which consists of about 11.5 percent of male unemployment during UI. Females who were married, were in lower family income brackets, or had children saw smaller changes in unemployment when UI programs were exhausted.
Link To Paper As of now in Macalester Commons, but will be published at UT Austin’s Jounral: The Developing Economist.