| The Affordable Care Act Dependent Care Provision mandated that private health insurance plans that offer dependent coverage must allow young adults to stay on parents' insurance until age 26. The papers study whether the provision is associated with demographic outcomes and labor market outcomes using difference-in-difference (DD) strategy and regression discontinuity (RD) design. Data come from Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and American Community Survey (ACS). Findings indicate that the provision is associated with 1) increased likelihood that young adults live with a parent, and decreased likelihood that young adults live with other relatives/non-relatives; 2) reductions in the likelihoods of being married and cohabitating, respectively, and a increase in the likelihood of being single, also a reduction in being a single parent, as well as reductions in young adults' participation in SNAP, TANF and WIC; 3) reductions in the likelihoods of ever serving in the military, being on active duty now, training for national guard/reserves, and being a TRICARE sponsor; 4) an increase in the likelihood of separating from employers and a better job match after re-reemployment. |
