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Author: Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma
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1. Cawley, John
Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma
The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on the Health Insurance Coverage of Americans
In: NBER Book Series, Frontiers in Health Policy Research 6,1. D. Cutler and A. Garber, eds., NBER Books, 2003:87-115.
Also: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c9865.pdf?new_window=1
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: MIT Press
Keyword(s): Benefits, Insurance; Health Care; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Heterogeneity; Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP); Unemployment

In March 2001, the longest economic expansion in U.S. history ended, and an economic recession began. This paper seeks to provide a better understanding of the historical relationship between macroeconomic variables and health insurance coverage. We use data from two nationally representative samples: the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). The longitudinal nature of our data allows us to remove individual-specific, time-invariant heterogeneity and to focus on changes in health insurance status in response to changes in macroeconomic variables. The results confirm our prediction that the probability of any health insurance coverage is negatively associated with unemployment rate. We find that a one percentage point increase in the state unemployment rate is associated with a decrease in the probability of health insurance coverage, through any source, of 0.62 percent for men, 0.54 percent for women, and 1.1 percent for children. However, our prediction that an indicator variable for national recession would be negatively correlated with the probability of health insurance coverage is not supported by the data. We find that changes in employment status explain roughly one-quarter of the correlation between health insurance coverage and unemployment rates. Our estimates imply that 440,000 men, 436,000 women, and 494,000 children have lost health insurance coverage during the current recession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Bibliography Citation
Cawley, John and Kosali Ilayperuma Simon. "The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on the Health Insurance Coverage of Americans" In: NBER Book Series, Frontiers in Health Policy Research 6,1. D. Cutler and A. Garber, eds., NBER Books, 2003:87-115.
2. Lillard, Dean R.
Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma
Ueyama, Maki
The Effect of Maternal Education on Child Health
Presented: Chicago, IL, American Economic Association Annual Meetings, January 5-7, 2007.
Also: http://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2007/0105_1015_1804.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: American Economic Association
Keyword(s): Age at School Entry; Child Health; Children, Illness; Geocoded Data; Illnesses; Mothers, Education; Obesity; State-Level Data/Policy; Variables, Instrumental; Weight

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

We use an IV approach to examine the causal effect of mother's high school education on child health using the 1979-2002 waves of the NLSY79 and the 1990-2002 waves of the NLSY79CY. We instrument education with a rich set of education policy variables. We find that mothers who complete high school are more likely to report their child was ill enough to need a doctor, that their child was ill more times, and that their child was more likely to have fractured or dislocated a bone in the past 12 months that required medical attention or treatment. Across samples of mothers who dropped out of high school and who completed high school, we find no difference in the date of their children's last routine health checkup, percentiles for weight-for-age, height-for-age, BMI-for-age, or in the probability of children at risk of overweight and of being overweight. When we examined the possible mechanisms, we found that mother's high school education increases mother's age at child's birth, health insurance coverage and child care use. We also find suggestive evidence of a much more complex set of behaviors that are causally related to education (child care use, health insurance status, fertility decisions) and that likely affect child health. This preliminary evidence suggests that much more work needs to be done before one can strongly conclude that child health does or does not systematically vary with differences in maternal education on the margin we study.
Bibliography Citation
Lillard, Dean R., Kosali Ilayperuma Simon and Maki Ueyama. "The Effect of Maternal Education on Child Health." Presented: Chicago, IL, American Economic Association Annual Meetings, January 5-7, 2007.
3. Lillard, Dean R.
Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma
Ueyama, Maki
The Effect of Maternal Education on Child Health
Presented: New York City, NY, Population Association of America (PAA) 2007 Annual Meeting, March 29-31, 2007.
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Age at School Entry; Child Health; Illnesses; Mothers, Education; Obesity; State-Level Data/Policy; Variables, Instrumental; Weight

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

We use an IV approach to examine the causal effect of mother's high school education on child health using the 1979-2002 waves of the NLSY79 and the 1990-2002 waves of the NLSY79CY. We instrument education with a rich set of education policy variables. We find that mothers who complete high school are more likely to report their child was ill enough to need a doctor, that their child was ill more times, and that their child was more likely to have fractured or dislocated a bone in the past 12 months that required medical attention or treatment. Across samples of mothers who dropped out of high school and who completed high school, we find no difference in the date of their children's last routine health checkup, percentiles for weight-for-age, height-for-age, BMI-for-age, or in the probability of children at risk of overweight and of being overweight. When we examined the possible mechanisms, we found that mother's high school education increases mother's age at child's birth, health insurance coverage and child care use. We also find suggestive evidence of a much more complex set of behaviors that are causally related to education (child care use, health insurance status, fertility decisions) and that likely affect child health. This preliminary evidence suggests that much more work needs to be done before one can strongly conclude that child health does or does not systematically vary with differences in maternal education on the margin we study.
Bibliography Citation
Lillard, Dean R., Kosali Ilayperuma Simon and Maki Ueyama. "The Effect of Maternal Education on Child Health." Presented: New York City, NY, Population Association of America (PAA) 2007 Annual Meeting, March 29-31, 2007.
4. Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma
Kaestner, Robert
Do Minimum Wages Affect Non-Wage Job Attributes? Evidence on Fringe Benefits and Working Conditions
NBER Working Paper No. 9688, National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2003.
Also: http://www.nber.org/papers/w9688.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Keyword(s): Benefits; Benefits, Fringe; Minimum Wage; Wage Effects; Wage Levels; Wages

Neoclassical labor market theories imply that employers will react to binding minimum wages by changing the level of employment. A multitude of studies consider this aspect of minimum wages, yet fail to reach a consensus as to its employment effects. While the employment effects of the minimum wage are certainly important, the empirical literature has not adequately explored the possibility that employers may also adjust non-wage components of the job such as fringe benefits, job safety, and access to training opportunities. We study the effect of minimum wage legislation on fringe benefits (employer provision of health insurance, pension coverage, dental insurance, vacation pay, and training/educational benefits) and working conditions (shift work, irregular shifts, and workplace safety) doing the period of 1979 to 2000 using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the Current Population Survey. We examine effects of state and federal variation in the minimum wages on groups unlikely to be affected by minimum wage. These effects are compared to estimates found for groups unlikely to be affected by minimum wages. Our results indicate no discernible effect of the minimum wage on fringe benefit generosity for low-skilled workers. This conclusion is unchanged whether we use only state level variations or federal and state variation in minimum wages.
Bibliography Citation
Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma and Robert Kaestner. "Do Minimum Wages Affect Non-Wage Job Attributes? Evidence on Fringe Benefits and Working Conditions." NBER Working Paper No. 9688, National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2003.
5. Ueyama, Maki
Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma
How Does Parental Education Affect Infant Health?
Presented: New York, NY, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 29-31, 2007.
Also: http://paa2007.princeton.edu/abstractViewer.aspx?submissionId=71624
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Age and Ageing; Child Health; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Mortality; Mothers, Education; Mothers, Health

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

It is often asserted that the more education a woman has, the healthier will be her children. Establishing whether education causes a parent to invest more in the health of her child is complicated by difficult statistical problems. These mostly revolve around the hypothesis that unobserved factors cause a parent to invest in both her child's health and her own education. Following Currie and Moretti (2003), we use instrumental variable methods to consider education decisions at the high school/college margin and extend the investigation to include education decisions about high school completion. To date, no study has used nationally representative data to examine whether and how parental high school completion affects infant health. We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and a unique set of state educational policy instruments. We also explore mechanisms through which education might cause a woman to invest differently in her child's health.
Bibliography Citation
Ueyama, Maki and Kosali Ilayperuma Simon. "How Does Parental Education Affect Infant Health?" Presented: New York, NY, Population Association of America Annual Meetings, March 29-31, 2007.