We examine whether greater Medicaid generosity encourages mobility towards riskier but better jobs in higher paid occupations and industries. We use Current Population Survey Data and exploit variation in Medicaid thresholds across states and over time through the 1990s and 2000s. We find that moving from a state in the 10th to the 90th percentile in terms of Medicaid income thresholds increases occupational and industrial mobility by 7.6% and 7.8%. We also find that higher income Medicaid thresholds increase mobility towards occupations and industries with greater wage spreads and higher separation probabilities, but with higher wages and higher educational requirements. Given this description, you can assume that the likely identification strategy used is _____. Furthermore, the findings found in this paper are ____ with job lock (albeit, a slightly broader definition of job lock). a. instrumental variables; consistent with b. difference-in-difference; consistent with c. difference-in-difference; inconsistent with d. instrumental variables; inconsistent with
Below is an abstract from the paper, "BEYOND JOB LOCK: IMPACTS OF PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE ON OCCUPATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL MOBILITY," by Ammar Farooq Adriana Kugler.
We examine whether greater Medicaid generosity encourages mobility towards riskier but better jobs in higher paid occupations and industries. We use Current Population Survey Data and exploit variation in Medicaid thresholds across states and over time through the 1990s and 2000s. We find that moving from a state in the 10th to the 90th percentile in terms of Medicaid income thresholds increases occupational and industrial mobility by 7.6% and 7.8%. We also find that higher income Medicaid thresholds increase mobility towards occupations and industries with greater wage spreads and higher separation probabilities, but with higher wages and higher educational requirements.
Given this description, you can assume that the likely identification strategy used is _____. Furthermore, the findings found in this paper are ____ with job lock (albeit, a slightly broader definition of job lock).
a. instrumental variables; consistent with
b. difference-in-difference; consistent with
c. difference-in-difference; inconsistent with
d. instrumental variables; inconsistent with
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