THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT AND COLLEGE ENROLLMENT DECISIONS
| Autor: | Juergen Jung, Vinish Shrestha |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Actuarial science 05 social sciences Conditionality General Business Management and Accounting Treatment and control groups Incentive Political science 0502 economics and business Propensity score matching Mandate Demographic economics 050207 economics Young adult Survey of Income and Program Participation 050205 econometrics Panel data |
| Zdroj: | Economic Inquiry. 56:1980-2009 |
| ISSN: | 0095-2583 |
| Popis: | We investigate the effect of the extension of the federal dependent coverage mandate for young adults under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the college enrollment decisions of young Americans. The ACA removes the conditionality that young individuals need to be enrolled as full-time students in order to be able to remain on their parentsâ health insurance past the age of 18 and extends the coverage mandate to age 26 irrespective of student status. This expansion of the coverage mandate changes the incentives for the full-time and part-time college enrollment decisions of young individuals. We use panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for the years 2003â2013 and estimate that the dependent coverage expansion under the ACA decreases the probability to enroll as full-time student by 2 to 3 percentage points. Furthermore we find that part-time college enrollment is unaffected by the new policy. The results from a difference-in-differences model are robust to changes in the model specification and become stronger when we increase the sample overlap between treatment and control groups using trimming based on propensity scores. |
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