The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on the Near-Elderly : Evidence for Health Insurance Coverage and Labor Market Outcomes
Mark Duggan, Gopi Shah Goda, Gina Li
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) not only changed the landscape of health insurance coverage in the United States, but also affected the relationship between working decisions and health insurance. In this paper, we estimate the impact of the ACA on the near-elderly (ages 60- 64) in the five years after the implementation of its key provisions in early 2014. We exploit variation across geographic areas in the pre-existing level of uninsurance and use 65-69 year olds, whose insurance coverage was unaffected by the ACA, as a within-region control group. Our findings indicate that the ACA increased health insurance coverage among the near elderly by 4.5 percentage points and reduced their labor force participation rate by 0.6 percentage points
Year of publication: |
October 2020
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Authors: | Duggan, Mark |
Other Persons: | Goda, Gopi Shah (contributor) ; Li, Gina (contributor) |
Institutions: | National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor) |
Publisher: |
2020: Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research |
Subject: | Gesetzliche Krankenversicherung | Public health insurance | Beschäftigungseffekt | Employment effect | Ältere Arbeitskräfte | Older workers |
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freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white) |
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Series: | NBER working paper series ; no. w27936 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Mode of access: World Wide Web Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers |
Other identifiers: | 10.3386/w27936 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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