TY - RPRT T1 - Does the ACA Medicaid Expansion Encourage Early Retirement? Y1 - 2021 A1 - Sezen Ozcan Onal KW - Affordable Care Act KW - Labor force participation KW - Medicaid KW - Retirement AB - In this study, I examine the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on the retirement plans of low-educated, childless adults, aged 50-64. I employ a triple-differences (DDD) methodology, exploiting variation in individuals’ health insurance status and the timing of the expansion decisions of states. I find that with Medicaid expansion, insured workers without retirement health insurance (RHI) prior to the expansion decreased full-time work by 7.8 percentage points relative to those with RHI and those without any employer-sponsored coverage whatsoever. Among those no longer working full-time, 94 percent transitioned to complete retirement. PB - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee CY - Milwaukee, WI UR - https://uwm.edu/economics/wp-content/uploads/sites/205/2021/08/Ozcan_Onal.pdf ER -