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Title: Health Insurance and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act Early Medicaid Expansion in Connecticut

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Publication Year: 2016

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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2785938

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Abstract: This paper examines how health insurance affects labor supply by exploiting a quasi-experimental change in health insurance provision under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) early Medicaid expansion in Connecticut implemented in 2010. Applying an instrumental variables approach to a difference-in-differences-in-differences strategy, I find remarkable labor supply impacts of the ACA early Medicaid expansion in Connecticut. I show evidence that Connecticut's Medicaid expansion increased Medicaid coverage for low-income childless adults by 5.9 percentage points, and as a result reduced the employment rate by 3.8 to 4.5 percentage points among those low-income childless adults.

Url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2785938&download=yes

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Authors: Kim, Daeho

Publisher: Ohio State University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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