Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215393 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12997
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines effects of state Medicaid Expansion via the Affordable Care Act on the self-employed. We first examine impacts on the probability of self-employment and find no significant effect. We then examine the probability of having health insurance and the type of coverage for self-employed persons. Medicaid expansion increased overall health insurance coverage rates, with especially large impacts for the unincorporated self-employed. Medicaid expansion also increased the probability of Medicaid coverage as expected, but there is evidence of crowd out of other types of coverage. Impacts on health insurance rates of the self-employed also strengthened over time.
Subjects: 
health insurance
self-employed
Affordable Care Act
state Medicaid expansion
JEL: 
H51
I13
L26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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