Dependent Coverage and Parental "Job Lock": Evidence from the Affordable Care Act / Hannah Bae, Katherine Meckel, Maggie Shi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bae, Hannah.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Meckel, Katherine.

Shi, Maggie.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w30200.

NBER working paper series no. w30200

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.

Summary:

A common feature of employer-sponsored insurance is coverage for dependents. While prior work shows that employees trade off job mobility for their own coverage, there is less evidence on the intra-family spillovers of dependent coverage onto parental labor supply. We study this using a panel of insurance claims that links dependent insurance enrollment with a proxy for parental job tenure. We develop a regression discontinuity design that exploits variation in coverage eligibility by dependent birth date from the Affordable Care Act. We find that a one percent increase in the dependent enrollment likelihood increases parental job retention by 0.20 percent.

Notes:

Print version record

July 2022.