Cebi, Merve - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2011
This work presents new evidence on the effect of husbands’ health insurance on wives’ labor supply. Previous cross …-sectional studies have estimated a significant negative effect of spousal coverage on wives’ labor supply. However, these estimates … potentially suffer from bias due to the simultaneity of wives’ labor supply and the health insurance status of their husbands …