Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried … Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners are two to three times more likely to lack health insurance than … same benefits for partners as are provided to spouses would reduce the proportion of uninsured people in same-sex couples …

This paper identifies the effect of health insurance on workers' compensation (WC) filing for young adults by … implementing a regression discontinuity design using WC medical claims data from Texas. The results suggest health insurance … percentage point decrease in health insurance coverage increases WC bills by 15.3 percent. Despite the large impact of health …

amounts to 2.7% lower wages for ethnic minority (vs. ethnic majority) employees, indicating potential wage discrimination …

We study the origins of support for gender-related affirmative action (AA) in two pre-registered online experiments (N … treatments to disentangle the preference for AA stemming from i) perceived gender differences in productivity, ii) beliefs about … there is no gender gap in productivity. To test ii), we inform the candidates about the hiring rule ex-ante, allowing us to …

We study the origins of support for gender-related affirmative action (AA) in two pre-registered online experiments (N … treatments to disentangle the preference for AA stemming from i) perceived gender differences in productivity, ii) beliefs about … there is no gender gap in productivity. To test ii), we inform the candidates about the hiring rule ex-ante, allowing us to …

raise wages some of the way to the minimum wage, to balance out the benefits of non-compliance with the costs and penalties …