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- Title
MEDICAID AND THE LABOR SUPPLY OF SINGLE MOTHERS: IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM.
- Authors
Pohl, R. Vincent
- Abstract
Abstract: The Medicaid expansions and health insurance subsidies of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) change work incentives for single mothers. To evaluate the employment effects of these policies ex ante, I estimate a model of labor supply and health insurance choice exploiting variation in pre‐ACA Medicaid policies. Simulations show that single mothers increase their labor supply at the extensive and intensive margin by 12% and 7%, respectively, uninsurance rates decline by up to 40%, and an average family's welfare improves by 1,600 dollars per year. Health insurance subsidies and not Medicaid expansions mostly drive these effects.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HEALTH insurance subsidies; PATIENT Protection &; Affordable Care Act; LABOR supply; MEDICAID; SINGLE mothers; PUBLIC welfare
- Publication
International Economic Review, 2018, Vol 59, Issue 3, p1283
- ISSN
0020-6598
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/iere.12304