TY - JOUR
T1 - The employment impact of the provision of public health insurance
T2 - a further examination of the effect of the 2005 tenncare contraction
AU - Ham, John C.
AU - Ueda, Ken
N1 - Funding Information:
seminar participants, Joseph Altonji, David Card, Thomas DeLeire, Jinyong Hahn, Alan Krueger, Robert Moffitt, Roger Moon, Serkan Ozbeklik, Tiemen Woutersen, three anonymous referees, and especially Corina Mommaerts, our discussant at the Joe-Fest conference. John Ham thanks the National Institutes of Health, the National University of Singapore, and New York University Abu Dhabi for financial support. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations in this material are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of the National Institutes of Health. Ken Ueda thanks the University of Maryland and the National University of Singapore for support. The views in this paper are those of the authors and do not reflect those of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency or the US Department of the Treasury. We take responsibility for all errors. Contact the corresponding author, John C. Ham, at john.ham.econ@gmail.com. Information concerning access to the data used in this paper is available as supplemental material online.
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PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - In a 2014 paper, Garthwaite, Gross, and Notowidigdo examined the employment impact of the 2005 TennCare contraction. We extend their approach in several directions. First, we use consistent ConleyTaber estimation. Second, we transform their estimates to make them comparable to previous work; the transformed effects have large confidence intervals. We estimate their models using several larger data sets in an attempt to get more precise estimates but find that the results can be quite different. We consider two modifications to account for a major disruption to coverage in 2002, and one of these reduces the differences in the results.
AB - In a 2014 paper, Garthwaite, Gross, and Notowidigdo examined the employment impact of the 2005 TennCare contraction. We extend their approach in several directions. First, we use consistent ConleyTaber estimation. Second, we transform their estimates to make them comparable to previous work; the transformed effects have large confidence intervals. We estimate their models using several larger data sets in an attempt to get more precise estimates but find that the results can be quite different. We consider two modifications to account for a major disruption to coverage in 2002, and one of these reduces the differences in the results.
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U2 - 10.1086/711560
DO - 10.1086/711560
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85097924027
SN - 0734-306X
VL - 39
SP - S199-S238
JO - Journal of Labor Economics
JF - Journal of Labor Economics
IS - S1
ER -