The Impact of Government Shutdowns on United States Federal Employees

• In Event: Politics, Policy, and Civil Servants

Brief Overview

We combine the US OPM's annual employee census (FEVS) into a panel dataset at the subagency level to examine how federal employees’ work attitudes change after experiencing a government shutdown.

Authors

• William G. Resh, University of Southern California

• Yongjin Ahn, University of Southern California

• Donald Moynihan, Georgetown University