Medicaid expansions, which targeted low-income pregnant women, and were adopted differently across states and over time. We use …

pronounced for hospitalizations and emergency department visits related to chronic illnesses and those of patients living in low-income …

extended eligibility only to children born after September 30, 1983. This feature resulted in a large discontinuity in the … lifetime years of Medicaid eligibility of children at this birthdate cutoff. Those with family incomes at or just below the … cohorts of children born on either side of this cutoff from childhood through early adulthood. We examine changes in rates of …

short-, medium-, and long-term effects of providing low-income families with low birthweight infants support through the … Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. This program uses a birthweight cutoff at 1200 grams to determine eligibility. We find … family income in the first three years of the infant's life. These cash benefits persist at lower amounts through age 10 …