Effects of Federal Policy to Insure Young Adults: Evidence from the 2010 Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate

The authors would like to thank three anonymous reviewers for very helpful comments that substantially improved the paper. We are grateful for helpful comments from Joel Cantor, David Figlio, Seth Freedman, Robert Kaestner, Genevieve Kenney, Rick Kronick, Alan Monheit, Michael Morrisey, Benjamin Sommers, and seminar audiences at the Boston University/Harvard/MIT Health Economics seminar series, University of New Hampshire Economics Department, Urban Institute, U.S. Department of Justice, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Public Health, University of Pennsylvania, Miami University Ohio Department of Economics, Purdue University Economics Department, Carnegie Mellon University Health Economics Brown Bag seminar and the fall 2012 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) conference. The authors have no conflicts of interests to disclose related to this paper. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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