The Full Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Political Participation

Authors

Charles J. Courtemanche, University of KentuckyFollow
James Marton, Georgia State University
Aaron Yelowitz, University of KentuckyFollow

Abstract

This article examines the impact of both the Medicaid expansion and the private insurance-related components of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on voter turnout and registration. We employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences identification strategy exploiting variation over time, state Medicaid expansion status, and within-state local area pre-ACA uninsured rates. Using data between 2006 and 2016 from the November Current Population Survey and the Census Bureau's Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, our results suggest little effect of the ACA on voter turnout or registration.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2020

Notes/Citation Information

Published in RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, v. 6, no. 2.

© 2020 Russell Sage Foundation

This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.7758/rsf.2020.6.2.08

Repository Citation

Courtemanche, Charles J.; Marton, James; and Yelowitz, Aaron, "The Full Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Political Participation" (2020). Economics Faculty Publications. 9.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/economics_facpub/9