#10064. Did Medicaid expansion reduce medical divorce?

September 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Medical divorce occurs when couples split up so that one spouse’s medical bills do not deplete the assets of the healthy spouse. It has not been studied in the economics literature, but it has been discussed by attorneys and widely reported in the media. We develop a model of medical divorce that demonstrates that divorce is optimal when a couple’s joint assets exceed the exempted asset level. We use the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion which removed asset tests to qualify for Medicaid as exogenous variation in the incidence of divorce (as it was only implemented by some states).
Keywords:
Assets; Divorce; Education; H20; H42; I13; J12; Medicaid Expansion

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