Effects of ACA Medicaid Expansions on Health Insurance Coverage and Labor Supply / Robert Kaestner, Bowen Garrett, Anuj Gangopadhyaya, Caitlyn Fleming.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaestner, Robert.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Garrett, Bowen.

Gangopadhyaya, Anuj.

Fleming, Caitlyn.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21836.

NBER working paper series no. w21836

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.

Summary:

We examined the effect of the expansion of Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act on health insurance coverage and labor supply of low-educated and low-income adults. We found that the Medicaid expansions were associated with large (e.g., 50 percent) increases in Medicaid coverage and corresponding decreases in the proportion uninsured. There was relatively little change in private insurance coverage, although the expansions tended to decrease such coverage slightly. In terms of labor supply, estimates indicated that the Medicaid expansions had little effect on work effort despite the substantial changes in health insurance coverage. Most estimates suggested that the expansions increased work effort, although not significantly.

Notes:

Print version record

December 2015.