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The Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Border Counties / Lizhong Peng, Xiaohui (Ronnie) Guo, Chad D. Meyerhoefer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peng, Lizhong.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25105.
- NBER working paper series no. w25105
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Effects of Medicaid Expansion on Labor Market Outcomes
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.
- Summary:
- This paper provides new empirical evidence on the employment and earning effects of the recent Medicaid expansion. Unlike most existing studies that use a conventional state and year fixed effects approach, our main identification strategy is based on the comparison of employment and wages in contiguous county-pairs in neighboring states (i.e. border counties) with different Medicaid expansion status. Using the 2008-2016 Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, we estimate a set of distributed lag models in order to examine the dynamic effects of Medicaid expansion. Results from our preferred specification suggest a small but statistically significant decrease in employment of 1.3 percent one year after the Medicaid expansion. This disemployment effect is transitory and appears to primarily occur in low-wage sectors. In particular, employment returns to pre-expansion levels within two years. We also do not find any statistically significant effect of the Medicaid expansion on wages at any point.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2018.
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