Casey McQuillan
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Casey McQuillan
@caseymcquillan.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Princeton interested in labor economics, public finance, and causal inference | GRFP Fellow at NSF | Former RA at NewYorkFed | AmherstCollege '18

Website: https://casey-mcquillan.github.io/
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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...
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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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...
More than a Safety Net – Value Created by Unemployment Benefits
Welfare programs, like unemployment insurance, are rarely mentioned as policies that are positive-sum.
nominalnews.substack.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
🚨🚨🚨 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

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July 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"Buy the dip" benefits from recency bias. COVID vaccines were on their way, the government stepped in to stop the bleeding, and S&P had made gains by the end of '21. Still a gamble, but it paid off
April 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"Wall Street had its best day in 16 years" is an irresponsible way to cover the stock rally that resulted from the announced pause on tariffs
April 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM