Matt Notowidigdo
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Matt Notowidigdo
@profnoto.bsky.social
users.nber.org/~notom/ Labor Economics & Health Economics at Chicago Booth, NBER Research Associate

Co-author with Tal Gross, "Better Health Economics" https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo208556491.html
In related news, TPS benefits end today for the thousands of immigrants from Honduras & Nicaragua who have been living in the US legally for more than *26 years*, so there are going to be many more stories like the one above www.uscis.gov/humanitarian...
Temporary Protected Status Designated Country: Honduras | USCIS
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September 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
We see this paper as the start of a research agenda that uses the FFCRA as a natural experiment to study the downstream effects of reductions in insurance churn on health outcomes -- so stay tuned for more of our work on insurance churn next year!
July 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Comparing our results to the recent Einav-Finkelstein PNAS paper that studied the Affordable Care Act, we conclude that "the FFCRA succeeded in a way that the ACA did not — significantly decreasing the probability of losing health insurance coverage" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The risk of losing health insurance in the United States is large, and remained so after the Affordable Care Act | PNAS
Health insurance coverage in the United States is highly uncertain. In the post-Affordable Care Act (ACA), pre-COVID United States, we estimate tha...
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July 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Using the MEPS, we find clear evidence of a sharp reduction in insurance churn after the implementation of the FFCRA coming primarily from a reduction in Medicaid churn
July 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM