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Dependent Coverage and Parental "Job Lock": Evidence from the Affordable Care Act

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  • Hannah Bae
  • Katherine Meckel
  • Maggie Shi

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A common feature of employer-sponsored insurance is coverage for dependents. While prior work shows that employees trade off job mobility for their own coverage, there is less evidence on the intra-family spillovers of dependent coverage onto parental labor supply. We study this using a panel of insurance claims that links dependent insurance enrollment with a proxy for parental job tenure. We develop a regression discontinuity design that exploits variation in coverage eligibility by dependent birth date from the Affordable Care Act. We find that a one percent increase in the dependent enrollment likelihood increases parental job retention by 0.20 percent.

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  • Hannah Bae & Katherine Meckel & Maggie Shi, 2022. "Dependent Coverage and Parental "Job Lock": Evidence from the Affordable Care Act," NBER Working Papers 30200, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30200
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    1. Aouad, Marion, 2023. "The intracorrelation of family health insurance and job lock," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).

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    JEL classification:

    • H0 - Public Economics - - General
    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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