Does the ACA Medicaid Expansion Encourage Labor Market Exits of Older Workers?

Sezen O. Onal

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Abstract

In this study, I examine the effects of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on the labor supply decisions of non-disabled, low-educated, childless adults ages 50-64. I employ a triple-differences (DDD) methodology, exploiting variation in individuals’ health insurance status and the expansion decisions of states. I find that with Medicaid expansion, insured workers without retirement health insurance (RHI) decreased full-time work by 7.06 percentage points relative to those with RHI and those without any employer-sponsored coverage at all. Among those no longer working full-time, 82 percent transitioned to complete retirement.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)56-93
Number of pages38
JournalJournal of Labor Research
Volume44
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2023

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© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Keywords

  • Affordable care act
  • Labor force participation
  • Medicaid
  • Retirement

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