A quickly developing literature has shown that the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansions have improved health insurance coverage, health, and financial well‐being among low‐income adults without dependent children. This population includes noncustodial parents. With substantial overlap in the population that is typically obligated to pay child support and the population that has strongly benefited from the expansions, there may be potential implications for child support enforcement. In this paper, I examine the effect of public health insurance eligibility to low‐income adults on child support outcomes. I find that the ACA Medicaid expansions increased child support distributed to custodial families as arrears by 8.5 percent. Evidence also suggests current support distributions increased by about 2 percent. There were no significant effects on paying toward a child support order. Among unmarried mothers, the likelihood of child support receipt increased by 8 percent. These results imply that access to public health insurance can increase the ability of noncustodial parents to pay child support.

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儿童抚养费和《平价医疗法案》的医疗补助扩展

迅速发展的文献表明，《平价医疗法案》（ACA）的医疗补助扩大了无父母抚养子女的低收入成年人的健康保险覆盖范围，健康状况和财务状况。此人口包括非监护父母。由于通常有义务支付子女抚养费的人口与从扩张中受益匪浅的人口存在大量重叠，因此对子女抚养费的执行可能会产生潜在影响。在本文中，我研究了低收入成年人的公共健康保险资格对儿童抚养结果的影响。我发现，ACA医疗补助计划的扩展使拖欠托管家庭的儿童抚养费增加了8.5％。证据还表明，当前的支持分配增加了约2％。支付抚养费命令没有重大影响。在未婚母亲中，领取子女抚养费的可能性增加了8％。这些结果表明，获得公共健康保险可以提高非监护父母支付子女抚养费的能力。