The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The Safety Net, Living Arrangements, and Poverty in the Great Recession

Marianne Bitler, Hilary Hoynes

NBER Working Paper No. 19449
Issued in September 2013

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This paper was prepared for the NBER conference on “Labor Markets after the Great Recession”, which was supported in part by the Alfred Sloan Foundation. We thank David Card, Richard Freeman, Roland Fryer, Larry Katz, Alex Mas, Lucie Schmidt and Rob Valetta for comments and David Autor, Mary Daly, and Jenny Hunt for help with administrative data. Elira Kuka provided excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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