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Medicaid Benefit Generosity and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Medicaid Adult Vision Benefits
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This paper examines whether Medicaid adult vision coverage affects labor market activity using state-by-year changes to these benefits.We find that vision benefits increase hours worked and occupational skill requirements, but no consistent evidence of changes on the extensive employment margin. Intensive margin effects could be facilitated by decreased barriers to transportation - when a state covers vision services, beneficiaries are more likely to commute to work by car or motorcycle rather than other modes. Our study suggests that, conditional on eligibility, Medicaid can have a positive effect on labor market activity by expanding access to services that enable work. JEL codes:I13, I18, J22, H75. Link to online-before-print version
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Michel Boudreaux, Ph.D.
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Michel Boudreaux Publications
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Medication and procedural abortions before 13 weeks gestation and risk of psychiatric disorders
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Faculty Associate Julia Steinberg and colleaguse set out to test risks associated with having a medication or procedural abortion prior to 13 weeks of pregnancy
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Selected Research
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Melanie Wasserman, UCLA Anderson School of Management
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Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice
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Coming Up
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Melissa Kearney evaluates pandemic birth rates in Time Magazine
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Family planning in an era of psychological and economic strife
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Melissa Kearney examines impact of declining marriage rates
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Book and opinion piece in the New York Times lay out "elephant in the room" issues of family structure
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Melissa Kearney examines population decline
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EconoFact Chats podcast episode explores slowing U.S. population growth during the COVID period and well before
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Melissa Kearney featured in The New York Times on the interaction between economic growth and family formation
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Social context partially determines the family formation response to a positive income or earnings shock
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Melissa Kearney featured in SPIN on teen pregnancy
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Teen parenthood TV series could be partially credited for teen birth rate drop
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Melissa Kearney featured in Today on Possible Baby Boom after COVID-19
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Experts believe the COVID-19 pandemic will not result in a rise in the American birthrate
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Melissa Kearney featured in The New York Times on Early Childhood Intervention
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Children exposed to "Sesame Street" were more likely to be enrolled in the correct grade level for their age at middle and high school
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