This study provides plausibly causal estimates of the effect of public insurance coverage on the employment of … sizable and statistically meaningful reductions in employment up to at least nine quarters later, with an estimated size of 2 …

This paper exploits variation resulting from a series of federal and state Medicaid expansions between 1979 and 2014 to … extended Medicaid eligibility of children leads to positive contemporaneous labor supply responses of both parents. The …

This paper exploits variation resulting from a series of federal and state Medicaid expansions between 1979 and 2014 to … extended Medicaid eligibility of children leads to positive contemporaneous labor supply responses of both parents. The …

Having low income is one of the requirements for Medicaid eligibility. Given that earning ability is unobservable, once … income is low. This can affect the ability of Medicaid to target the most disadvantaged people given that a large fraction of … its beneficiaries do not work. In this paper we ask two questions: 1) Does Medicaid significantly distort work incentives …