Public Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Employment Lock

Craig Garthwaite, Tal Gross, Matthew J. Notowidigdo

NBER Working Paper No. 19220
Issued in July 2013

---- Acknowledgments ----

We thank David Autor, Jen Brown, Eric Budish, Meghan Busse, Phil Ellis, Sherry Glied, John Graves, Jon Gruber, Amy Finkelstein, Matt Gentzkow, Nathan Hendren, Larry Katz, Lee Lockwood, Enrico Moretti, Casey Mulligan, Emily Oster, Karl Scholz, Jesse Shapiro, Jon Skinner, Ann Stevens, Heidi Williams, and seminar participants at the Kellogg School of Management, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the University of Illinois for helpful comments. We also thank Gordon Bonnyman of the Tennessee Justice Center for providing important insight into institutional details of the TennCare expansion. Mark He and Angela Li provided helpful research assistance. Notowidigdo gratefully acknowledges the Initiative on Global Markets at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the James S. Kemper Foundation Faculty Research Fund at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business for generous financial support. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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