TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Courtemanche, Charles
AU  - Marton, James
AU  - Ukert, Benjamin
AU  - Yelowitz, Aaron
AU  - Zapata, Daniela
        TI  - Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Behaviors after Three Years
        PY  - 2018/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11468
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11468
        AB  - This paper examines the impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – which substantially increased insurance coverage through regulations, mandates, subsidies, and Medicaid expansions – on behaviors related to future health risks after three years. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and an identification strategy that leverages variation in pre-ACA uninsured rates and state Medicaid expansion decisions, we show that the ACA increased preventive care utilization along several dimensions, but also increased risky drinking. These results are driven by the private portions of the law, as opposed to the Medicaid expansion. We also conduct subsample analyses by income and age.
        KW  - drinking
KW  - smoking
KW  - obesity
KW  - health behavior
KW  - Medicaid
KW  - health insurance
KW  - Affordable Care Act
KW  - preventive care
KW  - screening
        ER  -