摘要：This paper exploits the State Children's Health Insurance Program of the United States to investigate impact of a
publicly funded health insurance benefit for children on work behavior of adult men and women. Drawing data from
the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey and employing a triple-difference
identification strategy, we find that public health insurance benefit for children decreases labor supply of women but
increases that of men. Estimates suggest that, on average, labor force participation rate of women decreased by 7.4
percentage points while that of men increased by 5.5 percentage points as their families became eligible for State
Children's Health Insurance Program. Our findings are supported by several robustness checks and a falsification
exercise.
