Replication data for: Living Arrangements, Doubling Up, and the Great Recession: Was This Time Different?

The Great Recession marks the worst downturn since those of the early 1980s. A large literature considers how the public safety net responded to this shock. We instead consider the responsiveness of one dimension of the private safety net. Families can react to negative shocks by moving in with relatives or downsizing. We use across-state over-time variation to estimate the effects of cycles on living arrangements, paying particular attention to young adults. We find living arrangements are cyclical, but effects are small. Surprisingly given the press attention, we find no evidence that things are different in the Great Recession.大衰退（Great Recession）是20世纪80年代初经济衰退以来最严重的一轮经济下行周期。既往已有大量学术文献探讨了公共安全网（public safety net）对此次经济冲击的应对情况，而本文则聚焦于私人安全网（private safety net）某一维度的响应表现。家庭可通过搬至亲属家中或缩减居住规模的方式，应对负面经济冲击。我们借助跨州跨时期的差异数据，估算经济周期对居民居住安排的影响，并将研究重点置于青年群体。研究结果显示，居住安排呈现周期性特征，但影响幅度相对有限。尽管媒体对此给予了广泛关注，但令人意外的是，我们并未发现大衰退时期的居住安排出现显著异于常态的变化。