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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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Conrad Hackett and Stephanie Kramer, Pew Research Center
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How demography is reshaping the global religious landscape
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Thurka Sangaramoorthy featured in The Baltimore Sun on Maryland Crab Workers during COVID-19
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This year’s crabbing season is fraught with difficult choices for the nearly all-foreign-women workers during the pandemic hit
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Examines nutritional impact of father outmigration
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Migration and Immigrant Processes
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How Do They Do It? The Immigrant Paradox in the Transition to Adulthood
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Sandra Hofferth and U.J. Moon, University of Maryland // Keywords: Immigrants, children, transition to adulthood, education, employment, extracurricular activities, culture; 2016-004
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Parental involvement, child effort, and the development of immigrant boys’ and girls’ reading and mathematics skills: A latent difference score growth model
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U.J. Moon and Sandra Hofferth, University of Maryland // Keywords: academic achievement, gender differences, immigrant children, parent involvement, longitudinal study; 2016-006
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Tod Hamilton, Princeton University
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Diverse Origins, Disparate Outcomes: The New Landscape of Black America
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Household extension and employment among Asian immigrant women in the US
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Philip Cohen and Jeehye Kang, University of Maryland; 2015-004
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Global Migration Flows and Income Differentials
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Patricio Korzeniewicz and Scott Albrecht, University of Maryland; 2014-003
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