Why Don’t You Just Get A Job? Public Attitudes About Medicaid Beneficiaries and Work Requirements

• In Event: Benefits, Beneficiaries, and Public Opinion

Brief Overview

Using a large, nationally representative survey, we analyze how personal and political identity as well as psychological characteristics shape causal attributions about Medicaid beneficiaries and work requirements.

Authors

• Simon F. Haeder, The Pennsylvania State University

• Steven Michael Sylvester, Utah Valley University

• Timothy Herbert Callaghan, Texas A & M University-College Station