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Title: The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Part-Time Jobs and Self-Employment

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Publication Year: 2023

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Abstract: We measure the effect of Medicaid Expansion on the share of low-income workers in part-time jobs and self-employment. Workers in these jobs commonly lack access to subsidized health plans through their employers. However, Medicaid expansion provided many low-income workers in these jobs access to publicly subsidized health plans, potentially making these positions more desirable. Our identification strategy is the difference-indifference design from Callaway and Sant'Anna (2021), which compares labor market outcomes for workers in states that expanded Medicaid against those that did not. We focus on a sample of low-income workers who were not eligible for Medi-caid before the expansion: childless, non-disabled adults in states without confounding state-level policies. Using American Community Survey data, we find that Medicaid expansion had a statistically insignificant effect on the share of our sample in part-time jobs or self-employment in both the short and long term. We conclude that Medicaid Expansion had a negligible impact on both types of work arrangements for low-income workers.

Url: https://seanbassler.github.io/Bassler Pedtke 2023.pdf

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Authors: Bassler, Sean; Pedtke, Joseph H

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Topics: Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Poverty and Welfare

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