Replication data for: Does State Fiscal Relief during Recessions Increase Employment? Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Gabriel Chodorow-Reich; Laura Feiveson; Zachary Liscow; William Gui Woolston

Version: View help for Version V1

Name	File Type	Size	Last Modified
20100254_data			10/13/2019 07:11:AM
LICENSE.txt	text/plain	14.6 KB	10/13/2019 03:11:AM

Project Citation:

Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel, Feiveson, Laura, Liscow, Zachary, and Woolston, William Gui. Replication data for: Does State Fiscal Relief during Recessions Increase Employment? Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2012. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114788V1

Project Description

Summary: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 included $88 billion of aid to state governments administered through the Medicaid reimbursement process. We examine the effect of these transfers on states' employment. Because state fiscal relief outlays are endogenous to a state's economic environment, OLS results are biased downward. We address this problem by using a state's prerecession Medicaid spending level to instrument for ARRA state fiscal relief. In our preferred specification, a state's receipt of a marginal $100,000 in Medicaid outlays results in an additional 3.8 job-years, 3.2 of which are outside the government, health, and education sectors. (JEL H75, I18, I38, R23)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
      I38 Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
      R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics

Related Publications

Download this project

Published Versions

V1 [2019-10-13]

Export Metadata

Dublin Core

DDI 2.5

Report a Problem

Found a serious problem with the data, such as disclosure risk or copyrighted content? Let us know.

This material is distributed exactly as it arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.