Employment Effects of the ACA Medicaid Expansions / Pauline Leung, Alexandre Mas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leung, Pauline.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Mas, Alexandre.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22540.

NBER working paper series no. w22540

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.

Summary:

We examine whether the recent expansions in Medicaid from the Affordable Care Act reduced "employment lock" among childless adults who were previously ineligible for public coverage. We compare employment in states that chose to expand Medicaid versus those that chose not to expand, before and after implementation. We find that although the expansion increased Medicaid coverage by 3.0 percentage points among childless adults, there was no significant impact on employment.

Notes:

Print version record

August 2016.