TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Miller, Cristina D. M.
AU  - Mishra, Ashok K.
        TI  - Health Insurance Coverage, Government Payments, and Labor Allocation
        PY  - 2022/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15262
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15262
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - Agricultural Resource Management Survey
KW  - beginning farm-operator household
KW  - counter-cyclical payments
KW  - risk management payments
KW  - health insurance coverage
KW  - off-farm labor supply
KW  - two-stage simultaneous probit model
        ER  -