Michael Stepner

Working Papers

The Economic Impacts of COVID-19: Evidence from a New Public Database Built Using Private Sector Data

Revise and Resubmit at the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

with Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren and The Opportunity Insights Team.

Project website: tracktherecovery.org

Media coverage: The New York Times (print B1), Vox, The Washington Post, More...

NYT Op-Ed: Who Spent Their Last Stimulus Checks?

Early Withdrawal of Pandemic Unemployment Insurance: Eﬀects on Earnings, Employment and Consumption

with Kyle Coombs, Arindrajit Dube, Calvin Jahnke, Raymond Kluender, and Suresh Naidu.

Nontechnical Summary: 1-Page Brief

The Insurance Value of Redistributive Taxes and Transfers

The Long-Term Externalities of Short-Term Disability Insurance

Publications in Medicine

The Association between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001 - 2014

The Journal of the American Medical Association (2016), Vol. 315, No. 14.

with Raj Chetty, Sarah Abraham, Shelby Lin, Benjamin Scuderi, Nicholas Turner, Augustin Bergeron, and David Cutler.

Ungated manuscript: PubMed Central

Project website: healthinequality.org

Media coverage: The New York Times (print front page), NPR Radio interview, The Washington Post, More...

Data Resource Profile: The Canadian Hospitalization and Taxation Database (C-HAT)

International Journal of Epidemiology (2018), Vol. 47, No. 3.

with Claudia Sanmartin, Alexander Reicker, Abel Dasylva, Michelle Rotermann, Sung-Hee Jeon, Randy Fransoo, Hannah Wunsch, Damon C Scales, Theodore J Iwashyna and Allan Garland.

Effects of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Health Events on Work and Earnings: a Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study

Canadian Medical Association Journal (2019), Vol. 191, No. 1.

with Allan Garland, Sung-Hee Jeon, Michelle Rotermann, Randy Fransoo, Hannah Wunsch, Damon C. Scales, Theodore J. Iwashyna and Claudia Sanmartin.

Effects of Cardiovascular Health Shocks on Spouses’ Work and Earnings: A National Study

Medical Care (2020), Vol. 58, No. 2.

with Sung-Hee Jeon, Michelle Rotermann, Randy Fransoo, Claudia Sanmartin, Damon C. Scales, Hannah Wunsch, Theodore J. Iwashyna and Allan Garland.

Association of Severe Trauma with Work and Earnings in a National Cohort in Canada

JAMA Surgery (2021), Vol. 156, No. 1.

with Barbara Haas, Sung-Hee Jeon, Michelle Rotermann, Randy Fransoo, Claudia Sanmartin, Hannah Wunsch, Damon C. Scales, Theodore J. Iwashyna and Allan Garland.