Employment Effects of the ACA Medicaid Expansions

Pauline Leung and Alexandre Mas

No 22540, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: 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.

JEL-codes: H0 J0 J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-08
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