Table 8

2SLS Estimates of the Effect of Medicaid Eligibility on Requirements for Specific Skills

Skill Name:AnalyticalCritical ThinkingMathematicsProblem SolvingResearchStatistics
Panel A: Cognitive Skills
−0.005
(0.004)
0.022
(0.035)
−0.002
(0.004)
−0.085***
(0.018)
−0.031*
(0.017)
−0.000
(0.001)
Share requiring skill:0.0070.0370.0090.0470.0490.001
Skill Name:Detail-OrientedMeeting DeadlinesMulti-TaskingOrganizationTime Management
Panel B: Organizational Skills
0.007
(0.006)
−0.008
(0.006)
−0.007
(0.005)
−0.077***
(0.014)
−0.019**
(0.008)
Share requiring skill:0.0240.0050.0170.0560.017
Skill name:CommunicationEnergeticNegotiationPresentationCollaboration
Panel C: Social Skills
−0.079***
(0.029)
−0.001
(0.001)
−0.002
(0.001)
0.000
(0.002)
−0.030*
(0.017)
Share requiring skill:0.1430.0020.0020.0080.070
Skill name:Data EntryReporting
Panel D: Other Skills
−0.010**
(0.004)
−0.015
(0.016)
Share requiring skill:0.0160.007
  • Notes: The data come from job vacancies posted online, 2010–2016. The unit of observation is a vacancy posting. Each cell is the effect of Medicaid eligibility from separate 2SLS regressions of Equation 2 that include occupation-by-CZ fixed effects, occupation-by-year fixed effects, and the annual CZ-level covariates described in the text. Standard errors are clustered at the CZ level and are shown in parentheses below the estimates.