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Medicaid Expansions and Welfare Contractions : Offsetting Effects on Prenatal Care and Infant Health?
Currie, Janet - 2000
Evaluations of changes to the Medicaid program have focused on increases in the generosity of income cutoffs for Medicaid eligibility. Previous research shows that despite dramatic increases in the number of births paid for by the Medicaid program, women often enroll in Medicaid at the point of...
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The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Single Mothers
Blau, David - 2003
This paper provides an analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform. Previous studies of child care subsidies use data from the pre-welfare-reform period, and their results may not apply to the very different post-reform environment. We use data from the 1999 National Survey of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469033
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The Effect of Medicaid Expansions for Low-Income Children on Medicaid Participation and Insurance Coverage : Evidence from the SIPP
Ham, John C. - 2001
Increased availability of public health insurance for children has led to two potentially contradictory concerns for … additional public coverage may not reach many uninsured children. We examine these two concerns using data from the 1987 … children who have been eligible for Medicaid longer are more likely to be enrolled in Medicaid but no more likely to have lost …
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The Effect of Medicaid Abortion Funding Restrictions on Abortions, Pregnancies, and Births
Levine, Phillip B. - 1995
This paper considers whether state Medicaid abortion funding restrictions affect the likelihood of getting pregnant, having an abortion, and bearing a child. Aggregate, state-level data and microdata from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) are applied in the empirical work. Changes...
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Multi-generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net : Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health
East, Chloe N. - 2017
We examine multi-generational impacts of positive in utero and early life health interventions. We focus on the 1980s Medicaid expansions, which targeted low-income pregnant women, and were adopted differently across states and over time. We use Vital Statistics Natality files to create unique...
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The Long-Run Effects of Childhood Insurance Coverage : Medicaid Implementation, Adult Health, and Labor Market Outcomes
Goodman-Bacon, Andrew - 2016
This paper exploits the original introduction of Medicaid (1966-1970) and the federal mandate that states cover all cash welfare recipients to estimate the effect of childhood Medicaid eligibility on adult health, labor supply, program participation, and income. Cohorts born closer to Medicaid...
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Childhood Medicaid Coverage and Later Life Health Care Utilization
Wherry, Laura R. - 2015
Policy-makers have argued that providing public health insurance coverage to the uninsured lowers long-run costs by reducing the need for expensive hospitalizations and emergency department visits later in life. In this paper, we provide evidence for such a phenomenon by exploiting a legislated...
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