The Incentive Effects of Medicaid on Women's Labor Supply
利用1986年当前人口调查数据，研究医疗补助（Medicaid）对女性户主劳动供给的影响，发现医疗补助显著降低其工作概率，但对工作时长影响不显著。
This paper investigates Medicaid's impact on women's labor supply behavior while taking into account Medicaid's link to the AFDC program. The data were extracted from the 1986 Current Population Survey. A majorfinding is that Medicaid, valued as government-provided health insurance, has a significant negative impact on an average female head's probability of working. For instance, a I0 percent increase in Medicaid would reduce a head's probability of working by .9 to 1.3 percentage points. Contrary to expectations, Medicaid is found to have a generally insignificant effect on hours worked.