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Race, ethnicity and the dynamics of health insurance coverage
Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor);  … - 2008
transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage … rates into group differences in transition rates into and out of health insurance coverage. The low rate of health insurance … coverage among African-Americans is due almost entirely to higher annual rates of losing health insurance than whites. Among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759015
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Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship?
Fairlie, Robert W.; Kapur, Kanika; Gates, Susan M. - 2010
The focus on employer-provided health insurance in the United States may restrict business creation. We address the …. We use difference-indifference models to estimate the interaction between having a spouse with employer-based health … insurance and potential demand for health care. We find evidence of a larger negative effect of health insurance demand on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011625
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The impact of Covid-19 on community college enrollment and student success : evidence from California administrative data
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2022
Although enrollment at California’s four-year public universities mostly remained unchanged by the pandemic, the effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country. This paper provides a detailed analysis of how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013171011
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The evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender inequality in the U.S. labor market: the COVID motherhood penalty
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2021
We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669824
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The impact of COVID-19 on community college enrollment and student success : evidence from California administrative data
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2022
This paper examines how the pandemic impacted the enrollment patterns, fields of study, and academic outcomes of students in the California Community College System, the largest higher-education system in the country. Enrollment dropped precipitously during the pandemic - the total number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275403
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The impact of COVID-19 on community college enrollment and student success : evidence from California administrative data
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2022
Although enrollment at California's four-year public universities mostly remained unchanged by the pandemic, the effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country. This paper provides a detailed analysis of how the pandemic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172843
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The impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment : first evidence from April 2020 CPS microdata
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222357
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The impacts of COVID-19 on minority unemployment : first evidence from April 2020 CPS microdata
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020
COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012223833
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners : evidence of early-stage losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228573
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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners: the first three months after social-distancing restrictions
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291245