State Medicaid Expansion and the Self-Employed

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12997

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; National Government Expenditures and Health ; Health Insurance, Public and Private ; Entrepreneurship
• Subject: health insurance ; self-employed ; Affordable Care Act ; state Medicaid expansion

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Lee, Jun Yeong ; Winters, John V.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/215393
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET