This paper exploits variation resulting from a series of federal and state Medicaid expansions between 1977 and 2017 to estimate the effects of children’s access to public health insurance on the labor market outcomes of their mothers. The results imply that the extended Medicaid eligibility of children leads to positive labor supply responses at the extensive and intensive margins of single mothers and to negative labor supply responses at the extensive margin of married mothers. The analysis of mechanisms suggests that extended children’s Medicaid eligibility positively affects take-up of Medicaid and health of children.
Hostile Work Environments and Task-Specific Productivity of Racial Minorities (with Thiago de Lucena Coelho)
Racial harassment is highly prevalent in the workplace. Extensive medical literature suggests that this type of harassment has considerable impacts on cognitive abilities and risk preferences of subjects. Yet, virtually no work has evaluated the impact of racial harassment on the task-specific productivity of racial minorities outside of controlled experiments. To evaluate this relationship we make use of a natural experiment that decreased racial harassment in football stadiums and a novel dataset with more than 40 different measures of task-specific productivity of football players. Our results show that in the absence of discrimination African players do not experience any increase in productivity measures associated with efficiency relative to other players. We also rule out any differences in the risk profile of plays between both groups. However, we observe significant increases in measures associated with in-game participation, implying that the overall increase in performance of African players in this context is linked to increases in participation. Put together, our results have broad implications for minorities on labor markets, suggesting that a decrease in racial hostilities in work environments can lead to gains in participation of racial minorities.
Casualties, Prejudice, and Labor Market Outcomes among Muslims and Arabs in the U.S. (with Kerwin Charles, Hani Mansour, Daniel Rees, and Bryson Rintala)
Quality of National Death Index Segment from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (with Meredith Adams, Daniel Guth, Robert Hurley, Grace Sventek, and Elaine Hill)
Trends in Medicare healthcare utilization before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is there a “new normal”? (with Grace Sventek, Alina Denham, Daniel Guth, Robert W. Hurley, Meredith C.B. Adams, and Elaine Hill)
Protected Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (with Alina Denham, Aniket Patil, Daniel Guth, Grace Sventek, Konstantin Kunze, Tanzy Love, Robert Hurley, Meredith Adams, Elaine Hill)