Download File 051926-WP-Barriers to Benefits-Unemployment Insurance Take-Up and Labor Market Effects-McQuillan and Moore Authors: Casey McQuillan, Princeton University Brendan Moore, Stanford University Abstract: Unemployment insurance (UI) take-up is relatively low in the United States. We implement a large-scale field experiment among 50,000 likely unemployed individuals to study the causes and labor supply implications of incomplete UI take-up.