{"id":3616,"date":"2011-07-26T06:53:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T10:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2011-07-24T17:02:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T21:02:26","slug":"peoples-lives-are-path-dependent-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=3616","title":{"rendered":"People&#8217;s lives are path-dependent, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein reviewed&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/the-long-term-impact-of-unemployment\/2011\/07\/08\/gIQA3bsd3H_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\">the long-term impact of unemployment<\/a>, and it&#39;s not pretty: apart from the immediate effects, there are long-term consequences for one&#39;s career, health, etc. None of this should be surprising, but it means that one of the consequences of the Lesser Depression* is a set of nasty cohort effects for those who are currently young adults and those in the decade or so before usual retirement ages (i.e., the unemployed aged 18-25 and 55-67). The extent to which this also spills over into cohort efforts for young children (under 5 currently) depends on the children&#39;s health-insurance policy in different states, both Medicaid and SCHIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein reviewed&nbsp;the long-term impact of unemployment, and it&#39;s not pretty: apart from the immediate effects, there are long-term consequences for one&#39;s career, health, etc. None of this should be surprising, but it means that one of the consequences of the Lesser Depression* is a set of nasty cohort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-Wk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3650,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}