%0 Report
        %A Miller, Cristina D. M.
%A Mishra, Ashok K.
        %T Health Insurance Coverage, Government Payments, and Labor Allocation
        %D 2022
        %8 2022 Apr
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 15262
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15262
        %X The aging of the farmer population has led to concern about a shortage of beginning farmers and ranchers. This study investigates the impact of health insurance coverage and participation in government and private insurance programs on off-farm labor allocation decisions of beginning farm-operator households in the United States. 
We use farm household-level data from the 2015 Agricultural Resource Management Survey and the simultaneous Probit estimation method to estimate our empirical model. Results show that beginning farm-operator households with health insurance coverage from off-farm jobs are 14% more likely to work off the farm. Our analysis also depicts a negative relationship between the receipt of counter-cyclical, conservation, risk management payments, and off-farm work by beginning farm-operator households.
        %K Agricultural Resource Management Survey
%K beginning farm-operator household
%K counter-cyclical payments
%K risk management payments
%K health insurance coverage
%K off-farm labor supply
%K two-stage simultaneous probit model