“…Third, the ACA Medicaid expansions may have benefited adults by reducing job lock, the ability to change jobs or reduce hours due to no longer being tied to a specific job or schedule to maintain employer sponsored health insurance coverage (Madrian, 1994;Rashad & Sarpong, 2008). With a few exceptions (e.g., Callison & Sicilian, 2018;Kofoed & Frasier, 2019), research on adults (not parents specifically), however, has largely found that the ACA expansions did not result in significant changes in employment, job switching, or full-time versus part-time work status (Bailey & Chorniy, 2016;Callison & Sicilian, 2018;Gooptu et al, 2016;Leung & Mas, 2018;Moriya et al, 2016). Previous Medicaid expansions for parents have been linked with reductions in job lock (Hamersma & Kim, 2009), though no known research has examined this question among parents in relation to the more recent ACA expansions.…”