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    The Affordable Care Act and college enrollment decisions

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    Author/Creator
    Jung, Juergen
    Shrestha, Vinish
    Date
    2016
    2017-05-24
    Type of Work
    application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
    45 pages
    Text
    working papers
    Department
    Towson University. Department of Economics
    Citation of Original Publication
    Juergen Jung & Vinish Shrestha, 2016. "The Affordable Care Act and College Enrollment Decisions," Working Papers 2016-16, Towson University, Department of Economics, revised May 2017.
    Subjects
    United States. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
    Dependent health insurance coverage
    Youth health insurance
    Occupational choice
    Educational choice
    Survey of Income and Program Participation (Program)
    Abstract
    We 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.


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    Towson University
    8000 York Road
    Towson, Maryland 21252

    Website:
    www.towson.edu

    Contact Info:
    azukowski@towson.edu
    410-704-5318
    http://libraries.towson.edu/md-soar


    If you wish to submit a copyright complaint or withdrawal request, please email mdsoar-help@umd.edu.