The Affordable Care Act After a Decade: Its Impact on the Labor Market and the Macro Economy / Hanming Fang, Dirk Krueger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fang, Hanming.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Krueger, Dirk.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29240.

NBER working paper series no. w29240

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.

Summary:

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is one of the most important reforms of the US health insurance system since the introduction of Medicare. Since employment is a main source of health insurance for the working age population in the United States, this sweeping health insurance reform also has important implications for the labor market and the macro economy. In this paper, we survey the prototype models that are used in the macro and labor literature, extended to integrate health and health insurance, to study the short- and long-run consequences of the ACA. We also suggest open areas for future research.

Notes:

Print version record

September 2021.