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Tax Incentives as a Solution to the Uninsured: Evidence from the Self-Employed

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Tracy L. Regan () (Department of Economics, University of Miami)
Gulcin Gumus () (Department of Health and Policy & Management and Department of Economics, Florida International University)

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Between 1996 and 2003, a series of amendments were made to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 that gradually increased the tax credit for health insurance purchases by the self- employed from 25 to 100 percent. We study how these changes have in uenced the likelihood that a self-employed person has health insurance coverage as the policy holder. The Cur- rent Population Survey is used to construct a data set corresponding to 1995-2005. Both the di erence-in-di erence and price elasticity of demand estimates suggest that the series of tax credits did not provide sucient incentives for the self-employed to obtain health insurance coverage.

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Paper provided by University of Miami, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 0709.

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Keywords: Health insurance; self-employment; elasticity; CPS;

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