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Casey McQuillan

@caseymcquillan.bsky.social
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Public finance and labor economics | Postdoc Fellow @Brown_Economics/@Watson_School | Incoming AP @SU_Economics | PhD @PrincetonEcon | @AmherstCollege '18 Website: casey-mcquillan.github.io

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Washington Center for Equitable Growth @equitablegrowth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New research from @caseymcquillan.bsky.social and Brendan Moore sheds light on the administrative, informational, and structural barriers that keep eligible workers from receiving unemployment insurance and explains how those gaps influence labor market dynamics.
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Barriers to Benefits: Unemployment Insurance Take-Up and Labor Market Effects
Research finds that efforts to destigmatize unemployment insurance could increase program take-up among eligible workers at a cost-effective price.
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Casey McQuillan @caseymcquillan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining the Economics Department at Stockholm University as an Assistant Professor, following a postdoc at Brown University’s Economics Department and Watson School!
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Casey McQuillan @caseymcquillan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🚨🚨🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER 🚨🚨🚨 "Barriers to Benefits: Unemployment Insurance Take-Up and Labor Market Effects (with Brendan Moore) ➡️ We ran a large-scale field experiment among 50k likely eligible workers to study the role of information frictions in the incomplete take-up of UI
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Casey McQuillan @caseymcquillan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Making the case for expanding UI eligibility to more workers, based on our recent working paper with @equitablegrowth.bsky.social
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Casey McQuillan @caseymcquillan.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
🚨🚨🚨 MY JOB MARKET PAPER 🚨🚨🚨 "Incomplete and Endogenous Take-Up of Unemployment Insurance Benefits" (with Brendan Moore) ➡️ We study how the generosity of UI benefits affects take-up and the implications for optimal policy.
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Princeton Economics @princetonecon.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Casey McQuillan’s job market paper studies how unemployment insurance (UI) generosity affects take-up and optimal policy design. esd.wa.gov/media/pdf/42...
Casey McQuillan: Incomplete and Endogenous Take-Up of Unemployment Insurance. Areas: Labor Economics and Public Finance. Letter Writers: Ilyana Kuziemko (advisor), Dave Lee (advisor), Owen Zidar.
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Nominal News (Pawel Langer) @nominalnews.com · 11/08/2025
Programs like unemployment insurance, are rarely mentioned as positive-sum (unlike, say trade). But research by Casey McQuillan (@caseymcquillan.bsky.social) and Brendan Moore shows how UI generates value by allowing job-seekers to find better job matches nominalnews.substack.com/p/unemployme...
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More than a Safety Net – Value Created by Unemployment Benefits
Welfare programs, like unemployment insurance, are rarely mentioned as policies that are positive-sum.
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Casey McQuillan @caseymcquillan.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🚨🚨🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER: "The Benefits of UI for Marginally Attached Workers" with Brendan Moore ➡️ We find that UI minimally delays re-employment, but substantially improves labor market outcomes for low-income workers 🧵1/13
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