Public Health Insurance of Children and Parental Labor Market Outcomes

Konstantin Kunze
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Konstantin Kunze: Department of Economics, University of California Davis

No 349, Working Papers from University of California, Davis, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper exploits variation resulting from a series of federal and state Medicaid expansions between 1979 and 2014 to estimate the effects of child’s access to public health insurance on labor market outcomes of parents. The results imply that extended Medicaid eligibility of children leads to positive contemporaneous labor supply responses of both parents. The estimated effects are concentrated among mothers with non-white children and fathers with white children.

Keywords: Labor Supply; Medicaid; Simulated Eligibility; Spillover Effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I13 I18 I38 J18 J21 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 91
Date: 2022-04-20
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