scholarly journals Effects of ACA Medicaid Expansions on Health Insurance Coverage and Labor Supply

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 608-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kaestner ◽  
Bowen Garrett ◽  
Jiajia Chen ◽  
Anuj Gangopadhyaya ◽  
Caitlyn Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
Medicaid Expansions

scholarly journals Effects of ACA Medicaid Expansions on Health Insurance Coverage and Labor Supply

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kaestner ◽  
Bowen Garrett ◽  
Anuj Gangopadhyaya ◽  
Caitlyn Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
Medicaid Expansions

The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on the Sources of Health Insurance Coverage of Undergraduate Students in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 107755872110158
Author(s):  
Priyanka Anand ◽  
Dora Gicheva
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
The Affordable Care Act ◽  
Medicaid Expansions

This article examines how the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansions affected the sources of health insurance coverage of undergraduate students in the United States. We show that the Affordable Care Act expansions increased the Medicaid coverage of undergraduate students by 5 to 7 percentage points more in expansion states than in nonexpansion states, resulting in 17% of undergraduate students in expansion states being covered by Medicaid postexpansion (up from 9% prior to the expansion). In contrast, the growth in employer and private direct coverage was 1 to 2 percentage points lower postexpansion for students in expansion states compared with nonexpansion states. Our findings demonstrate that policy efforts to expand Medicaid eligibility have been successful in increasing the Medicaid coverage rates for undergraduate students in the United States, but there is evidence of some crowd out after the expansions—that is, some students substituted their private and employer-sponsored coverage for Medicaid.

Changes in Spousal Health Insurance Coverage and Female Labor Supply Decisions

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kandice A. Kapinos
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Unobserved Heterogeneity ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Current Population Survey Data ◽  
Spousal Health ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Over Time

This study examines the changing relationship between spousal health insurance coverage and labor market outcomes for married women over time as healthcare costs have increased. In particular, I investigate how husbands' health insurance coverage offers affect wives' decisions to enter the labor force and work full-time and how this has changed over time. I endeavor to correct for potential biases of these effects by 1) using an instrumental variables model to deal with endogeneity and 2) estimating and netting out likely unobserved heterogeneity biases, such as assortative mating or income effects. Using Current Population Survey data from 1995 to 2005, I find that husbands' employer-provided health insurance coverage has a negative effect on wives' labor supply that has increased (become more negative) over time.

Public Health Insurance, Labor Supply, and Employment Lock *

2014 ◽  
Vol 129 (2) ◽  
pp. 653-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Garthwaite ◽  
Tal Gross ◽  
Matthew J. Notowidigdo
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Health Insurance Coverage ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
Public Health Insurance ◽  
Private Employer ◽  
State Variation

Abstract We study the effect of public health insurance on labor supply by exploiting a large public health insurance disenrollment. In 2005, approximately 170,000 Tennessee residents abruptly lost Medicaid coverage. Using both across- and within-state variation in exposure to the disenrollment, we estimate large increases in labor supply, primarily along the extensive margin. The increased employment is concentrated among individuals working at least 20 hours a week and receiving private, employer-provided health insurance. We explore the dynamic effects of the disenrollment and find an immediate increase in job search behavior and a steady rise in both employment and health insurance coverage following the disenrollment. Our results are consistent with a significant degree of “employment lock”—workers who are employed primarily to secure private health insurance coverage.

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