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Matthew J. Notowidigdo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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public Health Insurance labor supply and employment lock
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014Co-Authors: Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross, Matthew J. NotowidigdoAbstract:We study the effect of public Health Insurance on labor supply by exploiting a large public Health Insurance disenrollment. In 2005, approximately 170,000 Tennessee residents abruptly lost Medicaid coverage. Using both across- and within-state variation in exposure to the disenrollment, we estimate large increases in labor supply, primarily along the extensive margin. The increased employment is concentrated among individuals working at least 20 hours a week and receiving private, employer-provided Health Insurance. We explore the dynamic effects of the disenrollment and find an immediate increase in job search behavior and a steady rise in both employment and Health Insurance coverage following the disenrollment. Our results are consistent with a significant degree of “employment lock”—workers who are employed primarily to secure private Health Insurance coverage.
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Public Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Employment Lock*
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014Co-Authors: Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross, Matthew J. NotowidigdoAbstract:We study the effect of public Health Insurance on labor supply by exploiting a large public Health Insurance disenrollment. In 2005, approximately 170,000 Tennessee residents abruptly lost Medicaid coverage. Using both across- and within-state variation in exposure to the disenrollment, we estimate large increases in labor supply, primarily along the extensive margin. The increased employment is concentrated among individuals working at least 20 hours a week and receiving private, employer-provided Health Insurance. We explore the dynamic effects of the disenrollment and find an immediate increase in job search behavior and a steady rise in both employment and Health Insurance coverage following the disenrollment. Our results are consistent with a significant degree of ‘‘employment lock’’—workers who are employed primarily to secure private Health Insurance coverage. JEL Codes: I1, J22, H75.
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Public Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Employment Lock
2013Co-Authors: Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross, Matthew J. NotowidigdoAbstract:We study the effect of public Health Insurance eligibility on labor supply by exploiting the largest public Health Insurance disenrollment in the history of the United States. In 2005, approximately 170,000 Tennessee residents abruptly lost public Health Insurance coverage. Using both across- and within-state variation in exposure to the disenrollment, we estimate large increases in labor supply, primarily along the extensive margin. The increased employment is concentrated among individuals working at least 20 hours per week and receiving private, employer-provided Health Insurance. We explore the dynamic effects of the disenrollment and find an immediate increase in job search behavior and a steady rise in both employment and Health Insurance coverage following the disenrollment. Our results suggest a significant degree of "employment lock" - workers employed primarily in order to secure private Health Insurance coverage. The results also suggest that the Affordable Care Act - which similarly affects adults not traditionally eligible for public Health Insurance - may cause large reductions in the labor supply of low-income adults.
Kosali Simon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Health Insurance coverage and the macroeconomy
Journal of Health Economics, 2005Co-Authors: John Cawley, Kosali SimonAbstract:This paper investigates the relationship between the macroeconomy and Health Insurance coverage for non-elderly Americans. We find that, for men, state unemployment rate is positively correlated with the probability of Health Insurance coverage in general and through an employer in particular, and that these correlations are only partly explained by changes in employment status. In contrast, the Insurance coverage of women and children appears to be insulated from fluctuations in the unemployment rate by public Health Insurance programs like Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). We estimate that 984,000 Americans, nearly all of whom were adult men, lost Health Insurance due to macroeconomic conditions alone during the 2001 recession.
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labor market consequences of state Health Insurance regulation
Social Science Research Network, 2003Co-Authors: Robert Kaestner, Kosali SimonAbstract:This study, based mainly on the 1989-98 March Current Population surveys, finds that state-mandated Health Insurance benefits and small-group Health Insurance reform had no statistically significant effects on labor market outcomes such as the quantity of work, wages, and whether an employee worked for a small or large firm. The number and type of state-mandated Health Insurance benefits were unrelated to weeks of work, wages, and the prevalence of private Insurance coverage, but positively associated with weekly work hours. Extensive small-group Health Insurance reform was associated with a slight decline in the prevalence of private Insurance coverage in small firms, and this reform affected both full- and part-time employees. Less extensive reforms were not generally related to the prevalence of private Insurance coverage. Overall, the authors do not find strong evidence that Insurance regulations affected labor market outcomes, although they appear to cause a small decrease in private coverage.
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Health Insurance coverage and the macroeconomy
Social Science Research Network, 2003Co-Authors: John Cawley, Kosali SimonAbstract:The primary objective of this paper is to improve our understanding of the historic relationship between state and national macroeconomic climate and the Health Insurance coverage of Americans. The secondary objective of this paper is to use the historic findings to estimate how the number of uninsured Americans changed during the 2001 recession, and to estimate whether to date enough people have gained Health Insurance during the current recovery to offset the losses during the recession. We conclude that the macroeconomy (measured by state unemployment rate and real gross state product) is correlated with the probability of men's Health Insurance coverage and that this correlation is only partly explained by changes in men's employment status. Counter-cyclical Health Insurance programs such as Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program seem to ensure that the Health Insurance coverage of women and children is insulated from macroeconomic changes. We estimate that 851,000 Americans, the vast majority of whom were adult men, lost Health Insurance due to macroeconomic conditions alone during the 2001 recession.
Craig Garthwaite - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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public Health Insurance labor supply and employment lock
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014Co-Authors: Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross, Matthew J. NotowidigdoAbstract:We study the effect of public Health Insurance on labor supply by exploiting a large public Health Insurance disenrollment. In 2005, approximately 170,000 Tennessee residents abruptly lost Medicaid coverage. Using both across- and within-state variation in exposure to the disenrollment, we estimate large increases in labor supply, primarily along the extensive margin. The increased employment is concentrated among individuals working at least 20 hours a week and receiving private, employer-provided Health Insurance. We explore the dynamic effects of the disenrollment and find an immediate increase in job search behavior and a steady rise in both employment and Health Insurance coverage following the disenrollment. Our results are consistent with a significant degree of “employment lock”—workers who are employed primarily to secure private Health Insurance coverage.
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Public Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Employment Lock*
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014Co-Authors: Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross, Matthew J. NotowidigdoAbstract:We study the effect of public Health Insurance on labor supply by exploiting a large public Health Insurance disenrollment. In 2005, approximately 170,000 Tennessee residents abruptly lost Medicaid coverage. Using both across- and within-state variation in exposure to the disenrollment, we estimate large increases in labor supply, primarily along the extensive margin. The increased employment is concentrated among individuals working at least 20 hours a week and receiving private, employer-provided Health Insurance. We explore the dynamic effects of the disenrollment and find an immediate increase in job search behavior and a steady rise in both employment and Health Insurance coverage following the disenrollment. Our results are consistent with a significant degree of ‘‘employment lock’’—workers who are employed primarily to secure private Health Insurance coverage. JEL Codes: I1, J22, H75.
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Public Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Employment Lock
2013Co-Authors: Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross, Matthew J. NotowidigdoAbstract:We study the effect of public Health Insurance eligibility on labor supply by exploiting the largest public Health Insurance disenrollment in the history of the United States. In 2005, approximately 170,000 Tennessee residents abruptly lost public Health Insurance coverage. Using both across- and within-state variation in exposure to the disenrollment, we estimate large increases in labor supply, primarily along the extensive margin. The increased employment is concentrated among individuals working at least 20 hours per week and receiving private, employer-provided Health Insurance. We explore the dynamic effects of the disenrollment and find an immediate increase in job search behavior and a steady rise in both employment and Health Insurance coverage following the disenrollment. Our results suggest a significant degree of "employment lock" - workers employed primarily in order to secure private Health Insurance coverage. The results also suggest that the Affordable Care Act - which similarly affects adults not traditionally eligible for public Health Insurance - may cause large reductions in the labor supply of low-income adults.
David O. Meltzer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Impact of Health Insurance on Health
Annual Review of Public Health, 2008Co-Authors: Helen Levy, David O. MeltzerAbstract:How does Health Insurance affect Health? After reviewing the evidence on this question, we reach three conclusions. First, many of the studies claiming to show a causal effect of Health Insurance on Health do not do so convincingly because the observed correlation between Insurance and good Health may be driven by other, unobservable factors. Second, convincing evidence demonstrates that Health Insurance can improve Health measures of some population subgroups, some of which, although not all, are the same subgroups that would be the likely targets of coverage expansion policies. Third, for policy purposes we need to know whether the results of these studies generalize. Solid answers to the multitude of important questions about how specific Health Insurance policy options may affect Health seem likely to be forthcoming only with investment of substantial resources in social experiments.
Stephen A Woodbury - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Health Insurance tax credits the earned income tax credit and Health Insurance coverage of single mothers
Health Economics, 2014Co-Authors: Merve Cebi, Stephen A WoodburyAbstract:SUMMARY The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 enacted a refundable tax credit for low‐income working families who purchased Health Insurance coverage for their children. This Health Insurance tax credit (HITC) existed during tax years 1991, 1992, and 1993, and was then rescinded. A difference‐in‐differences estimator applied to Current Population Survey data suggests that adoption of the HITC, along with accompanying increases in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), was associated with a relative increase of about 4.7 percentage points in the private Health Insurance coverage of working single mothers with high school or less education. Also, a difference‐in‐difference‐in‐differences estimator, which attempts to net out the possible influence of the EITC increases but which requires strong assumptions, suggests that the HITC was responsible for about three‐quarters (3.6 percentage points) of the total increase. The latter estimate implies a price elasticity of Health Insurance take‐up of −0.42. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
