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| Title: | | The efficiency of a group-specific mandated benefit revisited: The effect of infertility mandates  |
| Authors: | | Lahey, Joanna N. |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Upjohn Institute Working Paper 11-175 |
| Abstract: | | This paper examines the labor market effects of state health insurance mandates that increase the cost of employing a demographically identifiable group. State mandates requiring that health insurance plans cover infertility treatment raise the relative cost of insuring older women of child-bearing age. Empirically, wages in this group are unaffected, but their total labor input decreases. Workers do not value infertility mandates at cost, and so will not take wage cuts in exchange, leading employers to decrease their demand for this affected and identifiable group. Differences in the empirical effects of mandates found in the literature are explained by a model including variations in the elasticity of demand, moral hazard, ability to identify a group, and adverse selection. |
| Subjects: | | labor supply infertility health insurance health insurance mandates |
| JEL: | | I18 J23 J13 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Upjohn Institute Working Papers, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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