The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Insurance Coverage and Labor Market Outcomes

Abstract

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The three‐year impact of the Affordable Care Act on disparities in insurance coverage

“…11,22 Another found that while labor market outcomes in the aggregate were not significantly affected by the ACA, labor force participation reductions in areas with higher potential exchange enrollment were offset by increases in labor force participation in areas with higher potential Medicaid enrollment. 23 In order to examine whether our particular ACA treatment variables influence income, the first column of Table S8 presents and employer mandates, subsidies, and health insurance exchanges that served as the model for the ACA-had only small effects on marriage and divorce rates. 24 In Table S8, we estimate our baseline regression model separately with indicators of being married, of being newly married during the past 12 months, of being newly divorced during the past 12 months, and of being newly married or divorced in the past 12 months as dependent variables.…”

The Affordable Care Act's Effects on Patients, Providers, and the Economy: What We've Learned So Far

“…In studies of the dependent coverage provision, one analysis of survey data found a small reduction in work hours for young adults compared to slightly older adults but no effect on overall employment (Antwi et al, 2013), while another using tax data found no change in earnings (Heim, Lurie, & Simon, 2015). Other studies find no impact of the Medicaid expansions on employment, hours worked, or wages among adults with low incomes or no college degree (Gooptu et al, 2016;Kaestner et al, 2017;Leung & Mas, 2018), and one analysis considering both Medicaid and private coverage expansions also found no aggregate changes in labor supply (Duggan, Goda, & Jackson, 2017). There also has not been any evidence of a shift to part-time employment in response to the law (Moriya, Selden, & Simon, 2016), and no increase in early retirement or part-time labor among adults in their 50s or early 60s (Levy, Buchmueller, & Nikpay, 2018).…”

Health insurance reform and retirement: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act

“…3 The dataset is composed of roughly 50% adult couples, 30% single adults, and 20% families, totaling 2,725,384 unweighted observations. The key outcome variable is the proportion of the adults in 1 See Column 2 of Table 4 in Duggan et al (2019) for the general population and Column 10 of Table 6 for estimates of the near elderly subsample. the HIU participating in the labor force.…”