Does the Availability of Parental Health Insurance Affect the College Enrollment Decision of Young Americans?

Autor/inn/en	Jung, Juergen; Hall, Diane M. Harnek; Rhoads, Thomas
Titel	Does the Availability of Parental Health Insurance Affect the College Enrollment Decision of Young Americans?
Quelle	In: Economics of Education Review, 32 (2013), S.49-65 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/j.econedurev.2012.09.010
Schlagwörter	Enrollment; Health Insurance; Probability; College Students; College Attendance; Decision Making; Correlation; Parent Child Relationship; Federal Legislation; Health Services; Full Time Students; Part Time Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Einschulung; Krankenversicherung; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Collegestudent; College; Colleges; Attendance; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Anwesenheit; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Korrelation; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Bundesrecht; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Vollzeitstudium; Part-time students; Teilzeitstudent
Abstract	The present study examines whether the college enrollment decision of young individuals (student full-time, student part-time, and non-student) depends on health insurance coverage via a parent's family health plan. Our findings indicate that the availability of parental health insurance can have significant effects on the probability that a young individual enrolls as a full-time student. A young individual who has access to health insurance via a parent can be up to 22% more likely to enroll as a full-time student than an individual without parental health insurance. After controlling for unobserved heterogeneity this probability drops to 5.5% but is still highly significant. We also find that the marginal effect of the availability of parental health insurance has a larger effect on older students between ages 21 and 23. We provide a brief discussion about possible implications of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 in this context. (Contains 6 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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