Silvia Barcellos
Biographic Data
| ID | 9160462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Silvia Barcellos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Silvia |
| FAMILY NAME | Barcellos |
| SIGNATURE | BARCELLOS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Knowledge as a Predictor of Insurance Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act
BACKGROUND: The Affordable Care Act established policy mechanisms to increase health insurance coverage in the United States. While insurance coverage has increased, 10%-15% of the US population remains uninsured. OBJECTIVES: To assess whether health insurance literacy and financial literacy predict being uninsured, covered by Medicaid, or covered by Marketplace insurance, holding demographic characteristics, attitudes toward risk, and political …
Child Gender and Parental Investments In India
Previous research has not always found that boys and girls are treated differently in rural India. However estimates of the effect of gender on parental investments could be biased if girls end up in larger families due to son-biased stopping rules. Using a novel identification strategy that exploits that gender at conception is random, we document that boys receive more childcare time than girls, they are breastfed longer and they get more vitam…
The Dynamics of Immigration and Wages
There is considerable debate in the literature about the effects of immigration on workers' labor market outcomes. I present a new approach to the analysis of the relationship between immigration and wages based on a panel vector autoregression (VAR). The VAR analysis of a panel of US states shows that immigration does not have a significant effect on wages or internal migration. By contrast, wages do affect immigration: a 10 percent increase in …
Legalization and the Economic Status of Immigrants
This paper investigates the impact of legalization on the economic outcomes of the legalized population. It uses a natural experiment caused by the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) which gave amnesty for undocumented immigrants who could prove continuous residence in the U.S. after January 1, 1982. The arbitrary cutoff date on the eligibility criteria causes a discontinuity in the relationship between the year of immigration and the…
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The Dynamics of Immigration and Wages
There is considerable debate in the literature about the effects of immigration on workers' labor market outcomes. I present a new approach to the analysis of the relationship between immigration and wages based on a panel vector autoregression (VAR). The VAR analysis of a panel of US states shows that immigration does not have a significant effect on wages or internal migration. By contrast, wages do affect immigration: a 10 percent increase in …
Legalization and the Economic Status of Immigrants
This paper investigates the impact of legalization on the economic outcomes of the legalized population. It uses a natural experiment caused by the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) which gave amnesty for undocumented immigrants who could prove continuous residence in the U.S. after January 1, 1982. The arbitrary cutoff date on the eligibility criteria causes a discontinuity in the relationship between the year of immigration and the…
Child Gender and Parental Investments In India
Previous research has not always found that boys and girls are treated differently in rural India. However estimates of the effect of gender on parental investments could be biased if girls end up in larger families due to son-biased stopping rules. Using a novel identification strategy that exploits that gender at conception is random, we document that boys receive more childcare time than girls, they are breastfed longer and they get more vitam…
Knowledge as a Predictor of Insurance Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act
BACKGROUND: The Affordable Care Act established policy mechanisms to increase health insurance coverage in the United States. While insurance coverage has increased, 10%-15% of the US population remains uninsured. OBJECTIVES: To assess whether health insurance literacy and financial literacy predict being uninsured, covered by Medicaid, or covered by Marketplace insurance, holding demographic characteristics, attitudes toward risk, and political …
Economics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Immigration (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Population (2 works)