Ep. 12 - Job Search, Job Posting and Unemployment Insurance During the COVID-19 Crisis
This month, our podcast features a conversation with Leo Feler and Ioana Marinescu regarding research on how enhanced unemployment insurance affected job search and employment during the COVID-19 pand...
20 Sep 202119min
Ep. 11 - How Climate Change and Weather Directly Affect Labor Supply
This month, our podcast features a conversation with Leila Bengali, Nora Pankratz, and Jisung Park regarding their recent work on how climate change and weather affects labor supply.
17 Aug 202132min
Ep. 10 - Groundwater Use in California Agriculture
This month, our podcast features a conversation with UCLA Anderson Economist, Leila Bengali, and Professors Fiona Burlig, Louis Preonas, and Matt Woerman, regarding their recent paper on groundwater u...
17 Jul 202128min
Ep. 9 - Streets of Gold
For this edition of Forecast Direct, Leo Feler has a conversation with Leah Boustan, Professor of Economics at Princeton University about American Immigration. Following is an edited summary of our co...
17 Jun 202130min
Ep. 8 - To Close or Not to Close: Public Health Interventions and the Economy
For this edition of Forecast Direct, UCLA Anderson Forecast director Jerry Nickelsburg has a conversation with Emil Verner, Assistant Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan on whether pandemics or public h...
17 Jun 202138min
Ep. 7 - Income Inequality, Side Hustles, and Social Insurance
April 2021 For this edition of Forecast Direct, UCLA Anderson Forecast senior economist Leo Feler and Kathryn Edwards of RAND have a discussion about trends in income, the gig economy, and unemploymen...
17 Jun 202129min
Ep. 6 - The Differential Impacts of the Pandemic Recession on Women and Men's Employment and Roles
March 2021 For this edition of Forecast Direct, Jerry Nickelsburg has a conversation with Jane Olmstead-Rumsey of Northwestern and Titan Alon of UCSD on the differential impacts of the pandemic rece...
17 Jun 202132min
Ep. 4 - Lessons From the 1920s for the Coming Decade
January 2021 For this edition of Forecast Direct, we discuss economic history and comparisons to the current recovery with Professor Martha Olney from UC Berkeley. Professor Olney’s articles are ava...
17 Jun 202115min
