Shortages in healthcare labor markets were a major concern voiced by critics of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find the 2014 Medicaid expansions increased the average workweek by 30 minutes for registered nurses and 50 minutes...

This paper considers the effects of public health insurance expansions for low-income childless adults in the early 2000s in a causal framework, prior to passage of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Using the 1998 through 2007 March Current Population Surveys, my estimates suggest the expansions...