Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126265 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 14-213
Publisher: 
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI
Abstract: 
This study provides plausibly causal estimates of the effect of public insurance coverage on the employment of nonelderly, nondisabled adults without dependent children ("childless adults"). We use regression discontinuity and propensity score matching difference-in-differences methods to take advantage of the sudden imposition of an enrollment cap, comparing the labor supply of enrollees to eligible applicants on a waitlist. We find that enrollment into public insurance leads to sizable and statistically meaningful reductions in employment up to at least nine quarters later, with an estimated size of 2-10 percentage points, depending on the model used.
Subjects: 
health insurance
labor supply
employment
medicaid
JEL: 
I18
I38
J22
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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