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This paper analyzes the impact of paid family leave (PFL) policies in California, New Jersey, and New York on the labor market and mental health outcomes of individuals whose spouses or children experience health shocks. We use data from the 1996-2019 restricted-use version of the Medical...
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We show that Covid-19 illnesses persistently reduce labor supply. Using an event study, we estimate that workers with week-long Covid-19 work absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise-similar workers who do not miss a week of work...
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Historically coal has offered both benefits and costs to urban areas. Benefits include coal's role in fueling industry and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human health. This paper starts by using a Rosen-Roback style model to examine how differences in...
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A new survey of 745 small businesses shows little change in the size distribution of businesses between 2012 and 2016, except among businesses with 40-74 employees, in a way that is closely related to whether they offer health insurance coverage. Using measures of both size and voluntary...
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face financial hardship, high rates of morbidity and mortality, and high incidence of re-offense. Medicaid coverage, as a … changes resulted in a 60 percentage point increase in Medicaid enrollment at release. Using a series of linked individual … level administrative datasets, we estimate the effects of this change in Medicaid enrollment, finding declines in …
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Unlike most countries, Korea did not implement a lockdown in its battle against COVID-19, instead successfully relying on testing and contact tracing. Only one region, Daegu-Gyeongbuk (DG), had a significant number of infections, traced to a religious sect. This allows us to estimate the causal...
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This paper provides new empirical evidence on the employment and earning effects of the recent Medicaid expansion …) with different Medicaid expansion status. Using the 2008-2016 Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, we estimate a set … of distributed lag models in order to examine the dynamic effects of Medicaid expansion. Results from our preferred …
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) not only changed the landscape of health insurance coverage in the United States, but also affected the relationship between working decisions and health insurance. In this paper, we estimate the impact of the ACA on the near-elderly (ages 60- 64) in the five years...
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We examine whether the recent expansions in Medicaid from the Affordable Care Act reduced "employment lock" among … Medicaid versus those that chose not to expand, before and after implementation. We find that although the expansion increased … Medicaid coverage by 3.0 percentage points among childless adults, there was no significant impact on employment …
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Our paper documents the large labor market wedges created by taxes, subsidies, and regulations included in the Affordable Care Act. The law changes terms of trade in both goods and factor markets for firms offering health insurance coverage. We use a multi-sector (intra-national) trade model to...
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