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Rejoinder to Barkowski and McLaughlin

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  • Aaron M. Gamino

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In the previous issue of this journal, I published “Health Insurance Mandates and the Marriage of Young Adults: A Comment on Barkowski and McLaughlin.” That piece by me is a critique of Scott Barkowski and Joanne Song McLaughlin’s “In Sickness and in Health Interaction Effects of State and Federal Health Insurance Coverage Mandates on Marriage of Young Adults,” published in the Journal of Human Resources in 2022. The previous issue of this journal also featured a reply by Barkowski and McLaughlin. In this rejoinder, I provide a straightforward restatement of the main criticism and clearly show why their eligibility term is only identified in a DDD framework. I call attention to that their reply does not directly address the primary criticism and, instead, offers deficient reasons for their model specification. Specifically, Barkowski and McLaughlin argue that the additional fixed effects required in a DDD framework absorb the identifying variation and introduce bias. I contend that their arguments are theoretically unsound and empirically unsupported.

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  • Aaron M. Gamino, 2023. "Rejoinder to Barkowski and McLaughlin," Econ Journal Watch, Econ Journal Watch, vol. 20(2), pages 363–367-3, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ejw:journl:v:20:y:2023:i:2:p:363-367
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    1. Andreas Olden & Jarle Møen, 2022. "The triple difference estimator [Semiparametric difference-in-differences estimators]," The Econometrics Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 25(3), pages 531-553.
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    Keywords

    Health insurance; dependent mandates; marriage; difference-in-differences; difference-in-difference-in-differences;
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    JEL classification:

    • C18 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Methodolical Issues: General
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
    • J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy
    • K0 - Law and Economics - - General

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