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The Local and Aggregated Impacts of Stay-at-Home Orders on State Level Unemployment Outcomes

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  • Allen Bellas

    (Metropolitan State University)

  • Lea-Rachel Kosnik

    (University of Missouri)

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Initial research on the effect of pandemic related stay-at-home orders (SAHO) on subsequent US state unemployment rates found inconclusive results regarding the magnitude of the effect. This research helps to clarify the debate, finding that while own-state SAHOs affected unemployment outcomes, it was actually the national level of SAHO implementation across the country that had an even greater impact. While these results do not offer direct guidance on when or whether SAHOs should have been issued in any given state, they do help to clarify the impact of SAHOs on various measures of US unemployment.

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  • Allen Bellas & Lea-Rachel Kosnik, 2023. "The Local and Aggregated Impacts of Stay-at-Home Orders on State Level Unemployment Outcomes," Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan;Eastern Economic Association, vol. 49(2), pages 142-155, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:easeco:v:49:y:2023:i:2:d:10.1057_s41302-023-00243-4
    DOI: 10.1057/s41302-023-00243-4
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    • H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations
    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
    • J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers

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