TY  - BOOK
AU  - Courtemanche,Charles
AU  - Marton,James
AU  - Ukert,Benjamin
AU  - Yelowitz,Aaron
AU  - Zapata,Daniela
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Behaviors after Three Years
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - April 2018; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - This paper examines the impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) - which substantially increased insurance coverage through regulations, mandates, subsidies, and Medicaid expansions - on behaviors related to future health risks after three years. Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and an identification strategy that leverages variation in pre-ACA uninsured rates and state Medicaid expansion decisions, we show that the ACA increased preventive care utilization along several dimensions, but also increased risky drinking. These results are driven by the private portions of the law, as opposed to the Medicaid expansion. We also conduct subsample analyses by income and age
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w24511
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w24511
ER  -