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Tax Incentives and the Decision to Purchase Health Insurance: Evidence from the Self-Employed
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The Tax Reform Act of 1986 introduced a new tax subsidy for health insurance purchases by the self-employed. We analyze the changing patterns of insurance demand before and after tax reform to generate new estimates of how the after-tax price of insurance affects the discrete choice of whether to buy insurance. We employ both traditional regression models and difference-in-difference methods that compare changes in insurance coverage across groups around TRA86. The results from our most carefully controlled comparison suggest that a 1 percent increase in the cost of insurance coverage reduces the probability that a self-employed single person will be insured by 1.8 percentage points.
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- Authors
- Gruber, J., & Poterba, J.
- Venue
- The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1994-08-01
- Volume
- 109
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 701-733
- ISSN
- 0033-5533 (ISSN-L)
- 1531-4650
- OpenAlex
- W3021876351
- Cited by
- 303
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 12.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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