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Government shutdowns and administrative capacity

How shutdown exposure changes recruitment, voluntary and involuntary separations, employee behavior, agency operations, and policy implementation.

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This research program examines government shutdowns as institutional shocks to public employment and administrative capacity. It connects agency exposure to recruitment, separations, employee behavior, operations, and policy implementation.

Projects use federal personnel, hiring, job-posting, and agency data with quasi-experimental designs to estimate how disruption changes workforce outcomes.