Truck drivers who are most concerned about automation are, counterintuitively, also most likely to say they intend to reinvest in that occupation. This finding does not hold among drivers who are most familiar with the low costs of community college. This is consistent with a simple model in...

The variation in a state-level measure of local economic-policy uncertainty during the 2007-2009 recession matches the cross-sectional distribution of unemployment outcomes in this period. This relationship is robust to numerous controls for other determinants of labor market outcomes. Using...