| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w20233 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 20233 |
| Marital Disruption and Health Insurance | |
| H. Elizabeth Peters; Kosali Simon; Jamie Rubenstein Taber | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-06-19 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Despite the high levels of marital disruption in the United States, and substantial reliance on family-based health insurance, little research is available on the consequences of marital disruption for insurance coverage among men, women, and children. We address this shortfall by examining patterns of coverage surrounding marital disruption. We find large differences in coverage across marital status groups in the cross-section. In longitudinal analyses that focus on within-person change, we find small overall coverage changes but large changes in type of coverage following marital disruption. Both men and women show increases in private coverage in their own names, but offsetting decreases in dependent coverage tend to be larger. Dependent coverage for children also declines after marital dissolution, even though children are still likely to be eligible for that coverage. Children and, to a lesser extent, women show increases in public coverage around the time of divorce or separation. The most vulnerable group appears to be lower-educated women with children because the increases in private, own-name, and public insurance are not large enough to offset the large decrease in dependent coverage. As the United States implements federal health reform, it is critical that we understand the ways in which life course events--specifically, marital disruption--shape the dynamic patterns of coverage. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20233 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577906 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | H. Elizabeth Peters,Kosali Simon,Jamie Rubenstein Taber. Marital Disruption and Health Insurance. 2014. |
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