RIEBセミナー
RIEBセミナー
RIEBセミナー
神戸大学社会システムイノベーションセンター／六甲フォーラム 共催
| 日時 | 2023年4月17日（月）13:20 ～ 14:50 |
|---|---|
| 会場 | ハイブリッド（対面開催／ZOOMを使ったオンライン開催） |
| 対象 | 教員、院生、および同等の知識をお持ちの方 |
| 使用言語 | 英語 |
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13:20 ～ 14:50
- 論題
- The Affordable Care Act, Marriage Penalties and Marital Status (joint with Lauren Jones and Guangyi Wang)
- 報告者
- Tansel YILMAZER (Department of Human Sciences, Ohio State University)
- 概要
- The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provided publicly funded and subsidized health insurance to millions of Americans. Because of program eligibility and generosity rules, the ACA is not marriage neutral. Depending on a couple's income level, income distribution across partners, family size, state of residence, and age, ACA insurance benefits grow or shrink if a couple chooses to marry. We illustrate the marriage subsidies and penalties embedded in the ACA Medicaid expansion and premium tax credits. Using data from the American Community Survey (ACS), we explore whether the ACA marriage penalties causally affect marriage decisions. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find evidence that ACA marriage penalties greatly affected marital behavior. We estimate that 1 percent increase in ACA marriage penalties is associated with 0.03 percent reductions in transitions from cohabitation to marriage and 0.05 percent increase in transitions from marriage to divorce. The estimates from simulated instrument approach are consistent with our main findings.