Methodological Appendix for Estimating the impact of California’s $20 fast-food minimum wage on Medi-Cal eligibility
February 6, 2025 -
We use the American Community Survey (ACS) 2019-2023 (pooled one-year samples) microdata obtained from IPUMS (Ruggles et al. 2024) to estimate the number of front-line fast-food workers enrolled in Medi-Cal who might no longer be eligible due to an increase in the minimum wage to $20 an hour. This methodological appendix describes the detailed steps we took to arrive at our estimates in our brief “Estimating the impact of California’s $20 fast-food minimum wage on Medi-Cal eligibility.”
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Read the brief Estimating the impact of California’s $20 fast-food minimum wage on Medi-Cal eligibility