The Changing Consequences of Unemployment for Household Finances

William T. Dickens; Robert K. Triest; Rachel B. Sederberg

doi:10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.09

Article Information

vol. 3 no. 3 202-221

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.09

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online April 1, 2017.

© 2017 Russell Sage Foundation. Dickens, Williams T., Robert K. Triest, and Rachel B. Sederberg. 2017. “The Changing Consequences of Unemployment for Household Finances.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 3(3): 202–21. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.09. We wish to thank Sam Richardson for expert research assistance. We are also grateful to participants at the Russell Sage Foundation conference, “The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession,” in particular Arne Kalleberg and Till von Wachter, participants at the Southern Economic Association annual conference, and two anonymous referees for very helpful comments and discussions. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston or the Federal Reserve System. All errors are our own. Direct correspondence to: William T. Dickens at w.dickens@neu.edu, Department of Economics, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115; Robert K. Triest at robert.triest@bos.frb.org, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 600 Atlantic Ave., Boston, MA 02210; and Rachel B. Sederberg at sederberg.r@husky.neu.edu, Department of Economics, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

William T. Dickens^a,
Robert K. Triest^b and
Rachel B. Sederberg^c

^aUniversity Distinguished Professor and chair of economics at Northeastern University
^bVice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
^cDoctoral candidate in applied economics at Northeastern University

Corresponding authors:
William T. Dickens, (w.dickens{at}neu.edu); Robert K. Triest, (robert.triest{at}bos.frb.org); Rachel B. Sederberg, (sederberg.r{at}husky.neu.edu)

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