Health insurance and labor supply: Evidence from same‐sex couples.
This paper examines labor supply effects of policies allowing public sector workers to include same‐sex partners in employer‐sponsored insurance plans. Unlike broader partnership recognition rights, these policies focus narrowly on insurance access. I find gendered labor supply responses: women in s...
| Published in: | Contemporary Economic Policy Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 253 - 275 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2026
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