@article{1c47bd0fb0c14714afc0cba2d333945d,
title = "Men as Dependents? Marriage and Changes in Health Insurance Coverage among Working-age Adults in the United States, 1988 to 2008",
abstract = "Changes in marriage and employment patterns may have affected health insurance coverage rates differently for women and men. The author investigates changes in health insurance coverage between 1988 and 2008, focusing on employersponsored insurance (ESI) dependent and employee coverage. Using Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions and Current Population Survey data, the author finds that married men{\textquoteright}s coverage as dependents increased from 1988 to 2008, but a smaller share of men were married in 2008. Coupled with declines in ESI employee coverage, changes in marriage increased men{\textquoteright}s uninsurance rate. In contrast, marital changes for women were offset by their increased employment and insurance coverage as employees.",
keywords = "employment, family, gender, health insurance, marriage",
author = "Christine Percheski",
note = "Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Program and the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Funding Information: Christine Percheski is an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty fellow at the Institute of Policy Research at Northwestern University. Her main areas of expertise are family demography and social stratification. Her research contributes to scholarly understandings of how the Second Demographic Transition is unfolding in the United States, and her work interrogates the implications of these changes in families for economic and gender inequality. She has several recent articles related to health policy, focusing on health insurance coverage and family characteristics. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her research has been published in journals such as American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Journal of Marriage and Family, Social Science & Medicine, and Sociological Science. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2017.",
year = "2017",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/2378023117709843",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "3",
pages = "1--13",
journal = "Socius",
issn = "2378-0231",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
}