title: Health Reform and Retirement.
abstract: To analyze whether there was an increase in retirement or in part-time work among older workers after January 2014, when new health insurance coverage options became available because of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
  
  
  
  We analyze trends in retirement and part-time work for individuals aged 50-64 years in the basic monthly Current Population Survey from January 2008 through June 2016. We test for a break in trend in January 2014. We also test for differences in trends, both before and after 2014, in states that expanded their Medicaid programs in January 2014 under the ACA compared with those that did not.
  
  
  
  We find that there was no change in the probability of retirement or part-time work among older workers in 2014 and later, either overall or in Medicaid expansion states relative to nonexpansion states.
  
  
  
  Although many observers had predicted that an unintended consequence of health reform would be reduced labor supply, we find no evidence of this for older workers in the first 2.5 years after the law's major coverage provisions took effect.
authors: Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
authors: Helen
authors: H
authors: Levy
authors: Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
authors: Thomas C
authors: TC
authors: Buchmueller
authors: Department of Health Policy, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
authors: Sayeh
authors: S
authors: Nikpay
mesh_terms: D004651:Employment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008484:Medicaid / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008875:Middle Aged; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D012179:Retirement / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States