The Affordable Care Act and college enrollment decisions

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dc.contributor.authorJung, Juergen
dc.contributor.authorShrestha, Vinish
dc.contributor.departmentTowson University. Department of Economicsen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-11T17:24:34Z
dc.date.available2018-05-11T17:24:34Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.updated2017-05-24
dc.description.abstractWe investigate the effect of the extension of the federal dependent coverage man- date for young adults under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the college enrollment decisions of young Americans. The ACA removes the conditionality that young indi- viduals need to be enrolled as full-time students in order to be able to remain on their parents’ 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 individ- uals. We use panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for the years 2003–2013 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.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://ideas.repec.org/p/tow/wpaper/2016-16.htmlen_US
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dc.format.extent45 pagesen_US
dc.genreworking papersen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2P55DK6Z
dc.identifier.citationJuergen Jung & Vinish Shrestha, 2016. "The Affordable Care Act and College Enrollment Decisions," Working Papers 2016-16, Towson University, Department of Economics, revised May 2017.en_US
dc.identifier.otherJEL: C35
dc.identifier.otherJEL: I23
dc.identifier.otherJEL: I10
dc.identifier.otherJEL: I18
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/10743
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherTowson University. Department of Economicsen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtTowson University
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTowson University Department of Economics Working Paper Series;2016-16
dc.subjectUnited States. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acten_US
dc.subjectDependent health insurance coverageen_US
dc.subjectYouth health insuranceen_US
dc.subjectOccupational choiceen_US
dc.subjectEducational choiceen_US
dc.subjectSurvey of Income and Program Participation (Program)en_US
dc.titleThe Affordable Care Act and college enrollment decisionsen_US
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