Christopher J O’Leary

Biographic Data

ID5821918
NAMEChristopher J O’Leary
GIVEN NAMESChristopher J
FAMILY NAMEO’Leary
SIGNATUREO’LEARY C J
AFFILIATIONSW.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
ORCID0000-0002-3372-7527
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Nudges to increase completion of welfare applications

    Open AccessGabrielle Pepin, Christopher J O’Leary et al.ARTICLEJournal of Behavioral Public…2021

    The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program provides cash assistance to very-low-income families with children. Application procedures to receive TANF benefits, however, often involve substantial transaction costs likely to reduce take-up. Using a randomized controlled trial design, we estimate the marginal effects of a personalized telephone-call reminder to increase TANF application completion in southwest Michigan, where applica…

  • Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance

    David S Lee, Pauline Leung et al.ARTICLEJournal of Labor Economics2021

    Central to the welfare analysis of income transfer programs is the deadweight loss associated with possible reforms. To aid analytical tractability, its measurement typically requires specifying a simplified model of behavior. We employ a complementary “decomposition” approach that compares the behavioral and mechanical components of a policy’s total impact on the government budget to study the deadweight loss of two unemployment insurance polici…

  • Lessons from the American federal‐state unemployment insurance system for a European unemployment benefits system

    Open AccessChristopher J O’Leary, Burt S Barnow et al.ARTICLEInternational Social Security…2020Cited by: 1References: 1

    This article reviews practices in the United States (US) federal‐state unemployment insurance (UI) system regarding applicant eligibility, benefit generosity, benefit financing and emergency measures with the aim of revealing lessons for a possible European unemployment benefit system (EUBS) for European Union (EU) Member States. We overview the US system for UI and examine important areas of federal leadership. While the US system offers some go…

  • Targeting Employment Services

    Walter Nicholson, Randall W Eberts et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2004

    This book offers a thorough overview of the U.S. experience with targeting reemployment services and self-employment assistance to UI beneficiaries most likely to exhaust benefits. The authors also suggest other programs that might benefit from targeting, examine Canadian efforts at targeting reemployment services, and consider prospects for a new Frontline Decision Support System for one-stop centers

  • Do Bonus Offers Shorten Unemployment Insurance Spells? Results from the Washington Experiment

    Christopher J O’Leary, Robert G Spiegelman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1995Cited by: 1

    Unemployment insurance is intended to reduce hardship by providing labor force members with partial wage replacement during periods of involuntary unemployment. However, in performing this income maintenance function, unemployment insurance may prolong spells of unemployment. Evidence from a field experiment conducted in Illinois in 1984 suggested that offering unemployment insurance claimants a modest cash bonus for rapid reemployment would incr…