Andersen Martin
Department of Economics, Bryan School, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, PO Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402, United States.
J Health Econ. 2015 Sep;43:74-84. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.06.008. Epub 2015 Jul 8.
Health insurance benefit mandates are believed to have adverse effects on the labor market, but efforts to document such effects for mental health parity mandates have had limited success. I show that one reason for this failure is that the association between parity mandates and labor market outcomes vary with mental distress. Accounting for this heterogeneity, I find adverse labor market effects for non-distressed individuals, but favorable effects for moderately distressed individuals and individuals with a moderately distressed family member. On net, I conclude that the mandates are welfare increasing for moderately distressed workers and their families, but may be welfare decreasing for non-distressed individuals.
人们认为健康保险福利授权会对劳动力市场产生不利影响，但记录心理健康平权授权的此类影响的努力成效有限。我发现这种失败的一个原因是，平权授权与劳动力市场结果之间的关联因精神痛苦程度而异。考虑到这种异质性，我发现平权授权对无精神痛苦的个体有不利的劳动力市场影响，但对中度精神痛苦的个体以及有中度精神痛苦家庭成员的个体有有利影响。总体而言，我得出的结论是，这些授权对中度精神痛苦的工人及其家庭来说会增加福利，但对无精神痛苦的个体来说可能会减少福利。
