Same-sex marriage and health insurance coverage decisions by employers

项目摘要 我们提供了新的证据，证明同性婚姻的法律的准入对 雇主关于同性家庭伴侣健康保险福利的决定 员工没有以前的工作已经使用高质量的雇主调查，如我们建议 在这里使用：医疗支出小组调查-保险组成部分已经要求 4万名公共和私人雇主关注同性家庭伴侣的健康福利， 2013.连同限制访问雇主的地理位置，我们将研究如何 同性婚姻法律的准入的推出影响了关于这些福利的决定， 将研究雇主的特征，如公司规模或行业，是否系统地 与法律的同性婚姻对这些雇主决定的影响有关。

PROJECT SUMMARY We provide new evidence on the effects of legal access to same-sex marriage on employer decisions about health insurance benefits for same-sex domestic partners of employees. No prior work has used high quality employer surveys such as those we propose to use here: the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey – Insurance Component has asked over 40,000 public and private employers about same-sex domestic partner health benefits since 2013. Together with restricted access to geolocation of the employer, we will examine how the rollout of legal access to same-sex marriage affected decisions about these benefits, and we will examine whether employer characteristics such as firm size or industry are systematically related to the effects of legal same-sex marriage on these employer decisions.