Matthew Notowidigdo

Matthew Notowidigdo
University of Chicago
Booth School of Business
5807 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637

Telephone: 773-834-6249
E-mail: noto at chicagobooth
Twitter: @ProfNoto

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Working Papers

Lives vs. Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare (with Amy Finkelstein, Frank Schilbach, and Jonathan Zhang). January 2024.

Moving to Opportunity, Together (with Seema Jayachandran, Lea Nassal, Marie Paul, Heather Sarsons, and Elin Sundberg). July 2023.

Consumer-Financed Fiscal Stimulus: Evidence from Digital Coupons in China (with Jing Ding, Lei Jiang, and Lucy Msall). July 2023. (Online Appendix)

Who Profits from Amateurism? Rent-sharing in Modern College Sports (with Craig Garthwaite, Jordan Keener, and Nicole Holz). September 2022. (Online Appendix) (Data Page) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Revise and resubmit


Refereed Papers and Forthcoming Publications

Salience and Taxation with Imperfect Competition (with Kory Kroft, Jean-William Laliberté, and René Leal Vizcaíno). September 2022. (Online Appendix) Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming.

Efficiency and Incidence of Taxation with Free Entry and Love-of-Variety Preferences (with Kory Kroft, Jean-William Laliberté, and René Leal Vizcaíno). July 2022. (Online Appendix). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, forthcoming.

The Economic Consequences of Bankruptcy Reform (with Tal Gross, Ray Kluender, Feng Liu, and Jialan Wang). (Online Appendix) American Economic Review, 111(7): 2309-41, July 2021.

Parallel Inverse Aggregate Demand Curves in Discrete Choice Models (with Kory Kroft, René Leal Vizcaíno, and Ting Wang). May 2021. Economic Theory, forthcoming.

The Incidence of Local Labor Demand Shocks. (Online Appendix) (Addendum) Journal of Labor Economics, 38(3): 68-725, July 2020.

The Marginal Propensity to Consume Over the Business Cycle (with Tal Gross and Jialan Wang). February 2019. (Online Appendix) American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 12(2): 351-84, April 2020.

Take-up and Targeting: Experimental Evidence from SNAP (with Amy Finkelstein). (Online Appendix) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(3): 1505-1556, August 2019.

Long Time Out: Unemployment and Joblessness in Canada and the United States (with Kory Kroft, Fabian Lange, and Matthew Tudball). Journal of Labor Economics, 37(S2): S355-S397, July 2019. (Replication Kit)

Housing Booms and Busts, Labor Market Opportunities, and College Attendance (with Kerwin Kofi Charles and Erik Hurst). October 2018. (Online Appendix) American Economic Review, 108(10): 2947-94.

Housing Booms, Manufacturing Decline, and Labor Market Outcomes (with Kerwin Kofi Charles and Erik Hurst). (Online Appendix) Economic Journal, June 2018.

Myth and Measurement - The Case of Medical Bankruptcies (with Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, and Ray Kluender). March 2018. New England Journal of Medicine, doi:10.1056/NEJMp1716604.

The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions (with Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, and Ray Kluender). February 2018. (Online Appendix) American Economic Review, 108(2): 308-52.

Hospitals as Insurers of Last Resort (with Craig Garthwaite and Tal Gross). January 2018. (Online Appendix) American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(1): 1-39.

The Effect of Wealth on Individual and Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Swedish Lotteries (with David Cesarini, Erik Lindqvist, and Robert Ostling). December 2017. (Online Appendix) American Economic Review, 107(12): 3917-46.

Insurance Expansion and Hospital Emergency Department Access: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act (with Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross, and John Graves). December 2016. Annals of Internal Medicine, doi:10.7326/M16-0086.

Should Unemployment Insurance Vary With the Unemployment Rate? Theory and Evidence (with Kory Kroft). (Online Appendix) Review of Economic Studies, 83(3): 1092-1124, July 2016.

Long-Term Unemployment and the Great Recession: The Role of Composition, Duration Dependence, and Non-Participation (with Kory Kroft, Fabian Lange, and Lawrence F. Katz). (Online Appendix) Journal of Labor Economics, 34(S1): S7-S54, January 2016.

Liquidity Constraints and Consumer Bankruptcy: Evidence from Tax Rebates (with Tal Gross and Jialan Wang). (Online Appendix) Review of Economics and Statistics, 96(3): 431-443, July 2014.

Public Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Employment Lock (with Craig Garthwaite and Tal Gross). (Online Appendix) (Replication Kit) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(2): 653-696, May 2014.
     Reply to DeLeire (2018)   (Replication kit for reply)

Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks (with Daron Acemoglu and Amy Finkelstein). Review of Economics and Statistics, 95(4): 1079-1095, October 2013.

Duration Dependence and Labor Market Conditions: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Kory Kroft and Fabian Lange). (Online Appendix) Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128(3): 1123-1167, August 2013.

What Good Is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption (with Amy Finkelstein and Erzo Luttmer). (Online Appendix) Journal of the European Economic Association, 11: 221-258, January 2013.

Health Insurance and the Consumer Bankruptcy Decision: Evidence from Expansions of Medicaid (with Tal Gross). Journal of Public Economics, 95(7-8): 767-778, August 2011.

Peer Effects in the Workplace: Evidence from Random Groupings in Professional Golf Tournaments (with Jonathan Guryan and Kory Kroft). American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(4), pp. 34-68, October 2009.


Other Papers

Embracing Failure In Health Care Delivery And Learning From Null Results (with Jesse Gubb and Cordelia Kwon) Health Affairs Forefront, January 2024.

Temporary unemployment and labor market dynamics during the COVID-19 recession (with Jessica Gallant, Kory Kroft, and Fabian Lange) Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2020. (Replication Kit)

All Medicaid expansions are not created equal: The geography and targeting of the Affordable Care Act (with Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross, John Graves, Zeynal Karaca, and Victoria Marone) Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2019.

"Preparing for the Work of the Future" (with David Autor and Anran Li). March 2019. Prepared for J-PAL North America's "Work of the Future" Initiative.

What Does (Formal) Health Insurance Do, And For Whom? (with Amy Finkelstein and Neale Mahoney). February 2018. Annual Review of Economics, forthcoming.

Comment on Where Have All the Workers Gone? An Inquiry into the Decline of the U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate (by Alan Krueger) Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2017.

The Masking of Declining Manufacturing Employment by the Housing Bubble (with Kerwin Kofi Charles and Erik Hurst). Journal of Economic Perspectives, 30(2): 179-200, May 2016.

Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function (with Amy Finkelstein and Erzo Luttmer). American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 99(2), pp. 116-121, May 2009.