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Multi-generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health
Chloe N. East, Sarah Miller, Marianne Page, Laura Wherry
We find that the effects of the Medicaid persist beyond the exposed generation who received the benefits in childhood, and improve the next generation’s health as well. Our results suggest that the returns on early life health investments can be substantively underestimated. This paper is published at the American Economic Review.
A non-technical summary of the paper can be found here.
This research has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, NBER Digest, VOX, Brookings, and the Tradeoffs Newsletter.
Unintended Consequences of Immigration Enforcement: Household Services and High-Educated Mothers' Work
Chloe N. East and Andrea Velasquez
We show that intensified immigration enforcement harms immigrants who remain in the U.S. It also reduces the labor supply of college-educated U.S.-born mothers with young children because of increases in the cost of outsourcing household production, due to reduced undocumented immigrants’ labor supply. This paper is published at the Journal of Human Resources.
A non-technical summary of this paper and other related research can be found here.
This research has been featured in The Economist.
How Well Insured are Job Losers? Efficacy of the Public Safety Net
Chloe N. East and David Simon
This working paper studies which safety net and social insurance programs provide the largest buffering effects in terms of replacing lost income, and how this varies by demographics. We find that Unemployment Insurance provides the largest buffer against lost income, but that due to the structure of the program, the neediest are less-well insured (in terms of dollars transferred and percentage of lost earnings replaced), compared to middle and higher income job losers.
A non-technical summary of this paper and other related research can be found here.
This research has been featured in The Denver Business Journal and CNBC.
The Effect of Food Stamps on Children's Health: Evidence from Immigrants' Changing Eligibility
Chloe N. East
This paper, published at the Journal of Human Resources, studies the effects of access to Food Stamps (now renamed SNAP) on the health of U.S.-born children with immigrant parents. I find loss of parental eligibility has large effects on contemporaneous program receipt, and an additional year of parental eligibility, between the time children are in utero to age 4, leads to improvements in health outcomes at ages 6-16. This provides some of the first evidence that early-life resource shocks impact later-life health as early as school age.
A non-technical summary of this paper and other related research can be found here.
This research has been featured by the Council of Economic Advisers, the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, The Conversation, The Alton Telegraph, and an Economists' Letter to Congress in Support of the Child Tax Credit.
