Short-run Effects of Parental Job Loss on Child Health

Schaller, Jessamyn; Zerpa, Mariana

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“…This could lead, ultimately, to increases in undiagnosed and untreated chronic diseases, such as hypertension or heart disease. Of course, it will 2 The reduction in infectious disease is consistent with the findings of Schaller and Zerpa (2015), who use MEPS data to look at the effects of parental job loss on child health and also find reductions in infectious disease among children following displacement. remain difficult to show this directly given that this mechanism relies on undiagnosed conditions.…”

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Short-run effects of job loss on health conditions, health insurance, and health care utilization

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Stevens

2015

Journal of Health Economics

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Job loss in the United States is associated with reductions in income and long-term increases in mortality rates. This paper examines the short-run changes in health, health care access, and health care utilization after job loss that lead to these long-term effects. Using a sample with more than 10,000 individual job losses and longitudinal data on a wide variety of health-related outcomes, we show that job loss results in worse self-reported health, activity limitations, and worse mental health, but is not associated with statistically significant increases in a variety of specific chronic conditions. Among the full sample of workers, we see reductions in insurance coverage, but little evidence of reductions in health care utilization after job loss. Among the subset of displaced workers with chronic conditions and those for whom the lost job was their primary source of insurance we do see reductions in doctor's visits and prescription drug usage.

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Short-run effects of job loss on health conditions, health insurance, and health care utilization

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2015

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“…The vast majority of respondents in our sample reported that at least one immediate family did not currently have health insurance, making them less likely to seek or receive medical treatment (Hacker et al, 2015). Economic and health-related challenges faced by undocumented parents have the potential to trickle down to children and harm their mental health (Schaller & Zerpa, 2019; Gassman-Pines, Ananat, & Fitz-Henley, 2020). In our study, the COVID-19 pandemic has not only made undocumented college students worry about their family’s health and finances, but it has also increased their fears of deportation, detainment, and DACA termination.…”

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Mental health of undocumented college students during the COVID-19 pandemic

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused a surge in mental health problems across the United States, and some reports suggest a more severe impact for racial and ethnic minorities. The present study was conducted to gain a preliminary understanding of the mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic specifically for dreamers, i.e., undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S. as minors. A population of about 150 dreamers currently enrolled at a public university in Delaware were invited to participate in an online survey. The survey contained questions about demographics, mental health, academics, immigration, COVID-19 infection, and unemployment, in addition to mental health screens for anxiety (GAD-7), depression (PHQ-9), and stress (PSS-10). In total, 109 dreamers completed the survey. We observed remarkably high clinical levels of anxiety and depression: 47% of the dreamers met the clinical cutoff for anxiety, 63% met the cutoff for depression, and 67% (2 in 3) met the cutoff for anxiety and/or depression. Rates of anxiety and depression in our sample were significantly higher than those recently reported for college students overall, suggesting that dreamers may be experiencing a more severe mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. We also found that pandemic-induced concerns about finances, COVID-19 infection, immigration, and unemployment (among other factors) were associated with greater anxiety, stress, and depression among the dreamers in our sample. The present findings are consistent with recent predictions by social scientists that the COVID-19 pandemic would have a disproportionately negative impact on the mental health of undocumented immigrants.

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“…Following two recent longitudinal studies using the MEPS (Schaller & Stevens, 2015; Schaller & Zerpa, 2019), we estimated the following difference‐in‐differences specification:

y_{it} = α_{i} + X_{it}^{'} β + {γD}_{it} + δ_{t} + ε_{it},

where y it is the outcome of interest for individual i in round t ; α i and δ t represent individual fixed effects and round fixed effects, respectively; and X it is a vector of time‐varying individual and job characteristics. We also controlled for the length of interview round (in days).…”

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The effects of paid sick leave on worker absenteeism and health care utilization

2020

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We estimate the short-term effects of paid sick leave on worker absenteeism and health care utilization in the United States using data from the 2000-2013 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. We use both parametric and matchingbased difference-indifferences methods to account for nonrandom selection into jobs that offer paid sick leave and estimate the treatment effect separately for workers who gained and lost sick leave benefits. We find consistent evidence of increased absenteeism among female workers who gained paid sick leave but not for other groups. Estimates for office-based visits are mostly statistically insignificant and may not have a causal interpretation due to preexisting trends.

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Short-run Effects of Parental Job Loss on Child Health

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Short-run effects of job loss on health conditions, health insurance, and health care utilization

Short-run effects of job loss on health conditions, health insurance, and health care utilization

Mental health of undocumented college students during the COVID-19 pandemic

The effects of paid sick leave on worker absenteeism and health care utilization

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