Table 3.
Effect of Medicaid on Mothers’ Hours Worked and Wages
| Outcome | Usual weekly hours worked last year |
Usual weekly hours worked last year (Conditional on Hours>0) |
Log Wages (0 wage included) |
Log Wages (Conditonal on Wages>0) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Simulated % Medicaid eligible | −0.5225*** (0.1782) |
−0.5108** (0.2062) |
−0.0801 (0.0559) |
−0.1182** (0.0572) |
−2.5799*** (0.7888) |
−2.6247*** (0.8180) |
−0.2499 (0.1867) |
−0.4208* (0.2162) |
| Unmarried | 0.2239*** (0.0380) |
0.2232*** (0.0384) |
0.0520*** (0.0131) |
0.0521*** (0.0130) |
1.1919*** (0.1281) |
1.1883*** (0.1313) |
0.1594*** (0.0366) |
0.1598*** (0.0365) |
| Less than high school | −0.2501*** (0.0244) |
−0.2493*** (0.0248) |
0.0130** (0.0062) |
0.0133** (0.0062) |
−1.6232*** (0.1144) |
−1.6211*** (0.1148) |
−0.3501*** (0.0285) |
−0.3507*** (0.0284) |
| Age | −0.0026** (0.0012) |
−0.0027** (0.0012) |
0.0006 (0.0007) |
0.0006 (0.0007) |
−0.0073 (0.0086) |
−0.0082 (0.0087) |
0.0596*** (0.0025) |
0.0592*** (0.0026) |
| Black | 0.1711*** (0.0375) |
0.1677*** (0.0397) |
0.0754*** (0.0155) |
0.0840*** (0.0154) |
0.9230*** (0.2062) |
0.9236*** (0.1999) |
0.1570*** (0.0432) |
0.1982*** (0.0513) |
| Other race | 0.0680 (0.0537) |
0.0708 (0.0543) |
0.0734*** (0.0125) |
0.0763*** (0.0133) |
0.1321 (0.3239) |
0.1405 (0.3265) |
0.1019** (0.0393) |
0.1098*** (0.0371) |
| Unemployment rate | −0.0149** (0.0064) |
−0.0089 (0.0117) |
−0.0022 (0.0030) |
−0.0039 (0.0043) |
−0.0881** (0.0341) |
−0.0664 (0.0533) |
−0.0231* (0.0121) |
−0.0265 (0.0167) |
| % Under poverty | 0.0662*** (0.0043) |
0.0664*** (0.0043) |
0.0103*** (0.0010) |
0.0102*** (0.0010) |
0.3695*** (0.0082) |
0.3688*** (0.0081) |
0.1096*** (0.0036) |
0.1099*** (0.0036) |
| % Men ages 25-64 and <200% Poverty with private insurance | −0.1386 (0.1018) |
−0.1866* (0.1069) |
−0.0305 (0.0533) |
−0.0295 (0.0531) |
−0.2441 (0.5720) |
−0.2963 (0.5995) |
−0.1026 (0.1708) |
−0.1286 (0.1841) |
| State-specific linear time trend | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Estimation | Negative Binomial | Negative Binomial | OLS | OLS | ||||
Notes: All models adjust for sampling weights. State and year effects are included, as well as controls for marital status, education, race, and state unemployment rate, poverty rate, and percent of men aged 25-64 and under 200% of poverty who have private insurance. Standard errors are clustered by state cells and are in parentheses. N = 22,182 women ages 18-39 with a child less than one year old; for models conditional on positive hours worked (wages), N=14,477 (13,753). Asterisks denote significance as follows:
***
significant at 1%
**
significant at 5%
*
significant at 10%.