Scholarly Writing: Working Papers - Aaron Sojourner

Borowsky, J., J. Brown, E. Davis, C. Gibbs, C. Herbst, A. Sojourner, E. Tekin, M. Wiswall. (2022) An Equilibrium Model of the Impact of Increased Public Investment in Early Childhood Education National Bureau of Economic Research.
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Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard: Fixing Child Care: What Expanded Public Subsidies Could Mean for Children, Families, and Teachers

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Early Learning Nation: Economists Find Investing in Child Care Will Dramatically Reduce Costs, Increase Mother's Employment, and Increase Quality Care
Axios: Child care subsidies would send 1.2 million women into the workforce, new paper finds
Bloomberg: Biden's US Child-Care Aide Would Super-Charge Mom's Employment, Study Says
Huffington Post: The Child Care Crisis Needs a Lot More Attention Than It's Getting
Washington Post: How to fix the U.S. labor shortage? Provide decent child care

Budd, J., A. Sojourner, T. VanHeuvelen, and B. Zipperer. Growing Up in a Union Household: Impacts of Adult Union Status on Children's Life Course
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Goda, G. M. Levy, C. F. Manchester, A. Sojourner, J. Tasoff, J. Xiao. Are Retirement Planning Tools Complements or Substitutes to Financial Capability?
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Azar, J., Y. Qiu, & A. Sojourner. Common Ownership Reduces Wages and Employment.
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New York Times: What BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street Are Doing to the Economy

Sockin, J., A. Sojourner & E. Starr. Non-Disclosure Agreements and Externalities from Silence
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Washington Post: What happens when states limit nondisclosure agreements? Employees start to dish
U.S. Treasury: The State of Labor Market Competition

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Star Tribune: Schafer: Maybe these NDAs really protect only the bad employers
Financial Times: The NDA boom is bad for both employers and workers
Bloomberg Law: Gaming Industry Nondisclosures Become Key Test of #MeToo Laws
Forbes: Five Years After #MeToo, NDAs Are Still Silencing Victims

Goldsmith-Pinkham, P., E. Pancotti, & A. Sojourner. Predicting Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims Using Google Trends
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Economic Policy Institute:Coronavirus job losses for the last two weeks could match two years of Great Recession's job losses
Economic Policy Institute: The coronavirus crisis led to a record-breaking spike in weekly uninsurance claims

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Mpls Fed For All: Crisis response: Institute economists address the pandemic
Politico Morning Money: Here comes another bad jobless claims number
Politico Morning Money: Brace for another grim (but maybe not as grim) jobless claim number
Axios: U.S. likely lost more jobs in 4 weeks than it gained in 11 years
The Fiscal Times: The worst recession since the Great Depression
Politico Morning Money: Brace for more terrible job losses
Washington Post: Over 10 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits in March as economy collapsed
- Weather Channel: Another 6.6 Million Americans Are Out of Work
New York Times: Jobless claims hit 3.3 million in the last report. This week's will probably be worse.
New York Times: Coronavirus spreads amid supply shortages, stay-at-home orders, nd sobering economics
Washington Post: The Finance 202
Vox: Coronavirus could lead to the highest unemployment levels since the Great Depression
Politico Morning Money: Laying out the coronavirus scenarios for the economy
Politico Morning Money: How do we get out?
Vox: 9 charts showing what the coronvirus is doing to the economy
Minnesota Public Radio: Minnesota's head of employment answers your unemployment questions
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank's Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute: Crisis Response: Institute's economists address the pandemic
Forbes: Ahead of Thursday's jobless claims, the devil is in the revisions
Politico: 'Just damage containment': cost of coronavirus containment keeps rising
New York Times: More than 3 million Americans lost their jobs last week. See your state.
Politico Morning Money: How high will claims go?
Salon: More workers filed for unemployment last week than any other in U.S. history
The Fiscal Times: 10 million jobs lost, and millions more to come
Yale Insights: Making sense of a record-breaking wave of unemployment claims
Courthouse News: As economy shifts, length of lockdown will dictate speed of recovery
The Guardian: When it comes to unemployment in Australia, definitions have been broken
Common Dreams: "This chart, Holy Sh*t": Analysis shows more workers filed for unemployment last week than any other in U.S. history
- Also: Wall Street Window

Marinescu. I., Y. Qiu, & A. Sojourner. Wage Inequality and Labor Rights Violations
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Sockin, J. & A. Sojourner. What's the Inside Scoop? Challenges in the Supply and Demand for Information about Job Attributes
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Financial Times: The NDA boom is bad for both employers and workers

Chaparro, J., A. Sojourner, & M. Wiswall, Early Childhood Care and Cognitive Development
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Poverty Research and Policy podcast: The Value of Investments in Quality Child Care

McDevitt, R. & A. Sojourner. Demand, Regulation, and Welfare on the Margin of Alternative Financial Services
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Policy brief (3-pager) Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union op-ed: Banks need to accelerate and improve payment systems. Link

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Duke Fuqua summary: New research could improve check cashing industry for customers and businesses

Qiu, Y. & A. Sojourner. Labor-Market Concentration & Labor Compensation
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Forbes opinion: How Big Firms Keep Wages Low
Phenomenal World: The Emerging Monopsony Consensus
Hamilton Project: The Shift in Private-Sector Union Participation
Brookings: Non-compete contracts: Potential justifications and the relevant evidence
ProMarket: Regulators Should Not Change the Regulatory Environment to Include Labor Market Concentration
Center for American Progress: The Modern Company Town