| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w23139
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 23139
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| Did Medicaid Expansion Reduce Medical Divorce? |
| David Slusky; Donna Ginther
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| 发表日期 | 2017-02-13
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| 出版年 | 2017
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Medical divorce occurs when couples split up so that one spouse’s medical bills do not deplete the assets of the healthy spouse. It has not been studied in the economics literature, but it has been discussed by attorneys and widely reported in the media. We develop a model of medical divorce that demonstrates that divorce is optimal when a couple’s joint assets exceed the exempted asset level. We use the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion which removed asset tests to qualify for Medicaid as exogenous variation in the incidence of divorce (as it was only implemented by some states). We find that the ACA expansion decreased the prevalence of divorce by 11.6% among those ages 50–64 with a college degree. These results are robust to numerous placebo checks including older subsamples (who qualify for Medicare regardless of assets) and earlier years (before the expansion was implemented). Our results suggest that Medicaid expansion reduced medical divorce. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare
; Health
; Labor Economics
; Demography and Aging
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23139
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580813
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David Slusky,Donna Ginther. Did Medicaid Expansion Reduce Medical Divorce?. 2017.
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