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The Full Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Political Participation

Charles Courtemanche, James Marton, Aaron Yelowitz
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences July 2020, 6 (2) 179-204; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2020.6.2.08
Charles Courtemanche
aAssociate professor of economics at the University of Kentucky and director of the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise
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bProfessor of economics at Georgia State University
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cProfessor of economics at the University of Kentucky
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vol. 6 no. 2 179-204
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2020.6.2.08

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  • Published online July 15, 2020.

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© 2020 Russell Sage Foundation. Courtemanche, Charles, James Marton, and Aaron Yelowitz. 2020. “The Full Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Political Participation.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 6(2): 179–204. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2020.6.2.08. We thank Emily Dunlap for expert research assistance. We also thank the editors, Andrea Campbell and Lara Shore-Sheppard, three anonymous referees, and participants at University of Kentucky’s brownbag economics lunch and the Russell Sage Foundation Social, Political, and Economic Effects of the Affordable Care Act conference for helpful comments. Direct correspondence to: Charles Courtemanche at courtemanche{at}uky.edu, Department of Economics, 244 Gatton Business & Economics Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506; James Marton at marton{at}gsu.edu, Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 3992, Atlanta, GA 30302; and Aaron Yelowitz at aaron{at}uky.edu, Department of Economics, 225H Gatton Business & Economics Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Charles Courtemanchea,
  2. James Martonb and
  3. Aaron Yelowitzc
  1. aAssociate professor of economics at the University of Kentucky and director of the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise
  2. bProfessor of economics at Georgia State University
  3. cProfessor of economics at the University of Kentucky
  1. Correspondence authors:
    Charles Courtemanche, (courtemanche{at}uky.edu), James Marton, (marton{at}gsu.edu), Aaron Yelowitz, (aaron{at}uky.edu)
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