TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Buchmueller, Thomas C.
AU  - Levy, Helen
AU  - Valletta, Robert G.
        TI  - Medicaid Expansion and the Unemployed
        PY  - 2019/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12842
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12842
        AB  - We examine how a key provision of the Affordable Care Act – the expansion of Medicaid eligibility – affected health insurance coverage, access to care, and labor market transitions of unemployed workers. Comparing trends in states that implemented the Medicaid expansion to those that did not, we find that the ACA Medicaid expansion substantially increased insurance coverage and improved access to health care among unemployed workers. We then test whether this strengthening of the safety net affected transitions from unemployment to employment or out of the labor force. We find no meaningful statistical evidence in support of moral hazard effects that reduce job finding or labor force attachment.
        KW  - unemployment
KW  - access to care
KW  - insurance coverage
KW  - medicaid
KW  - labor force transitions
        ER  -