Many have argued that concerns over health insurance reduce labor market mobility in the
United States, causing a “job lock” effect. We take advantage of the novel natural experiment …

While it is generally understood that a gender gap exists in science, technology,
engineering, and math (STEM) fields, less research has been done on women …

We use a panel data set of US tax records spanning 2008–2012 to study the impact of the
Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirement to allow young adult dependents to be covered by …

We examine how the Affordable Care Act's dependent coverage mandate (DCM) affected
young adults' time allocation. Exploiting more accurate measures from the American Time …

Previous researchers have shown that employment-based health insurance lowers job
mobility and deters entrepreneurship. The Urban Resident Basic Medical Insurance …

This paper estimates the impact of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in
2014 on the decision to be self‐employed. Using data from the Current Population Survey …

Abstract On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. This comprehensive health care reform legislation …

The adult dependent coverage provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(ACA) is one of the earlier, and most popular, ACA provisions to go into effect. Implemented …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the effect of the recent Affordable Care Act's
(ACA) Dependent Mandate (DM) that requires health insurers to extend dependent …

We utilize the NLSY97 data to study the impact of health insurance coverage on the decision
to enter self-employment. We find that employer insurance coverage has a strong" pull" …