Medicaid expenditures account for a sizeable proportion of U.S. GDP - $360.3 billion in 2009 or 2.55 percent of GDP … for the Medicaid program. However, there is little literature on the effect on healthcare spending from earlier expansions … of Medicaid such as the introduction of the SCHIP program. Moreover, the effect of welfare reform (i.e. Personal …

Medicaid coverage of children using state administrative data from Georgia. Our analysis focuses on children enrolled in … Medicaid prior to the reform in the eligibility category for which the reform is most likely to be binding. We find that these …

among two Medicaid managed care plans impacts utilization and spending. We use a quasi-experimental approach exploiting the … timing and county-specific implementation of Medicaid managed care mandates in two contiguous regions of Kentucky. We find …

formal participation (i.e. more conditional coverage) among the ACA Medicaid expansion population (which is likely to be …This paper estimates the impact of the introduction of Medicaid managed care (MMC) on the formal Medicaid participation … increases the likelihood of being uninsured and decreases formal Medicaid participation. This finding is consistent with an …

Having low income is one of the requirements for Medicaid eligibility. Given that earning ability is unobservable, once … income is low. This can affect the ability of Medicaid to target the most disadvantaged people given that a large fraction of … its beneficiaries do not work. In this paper we ask two questions: 1) Does Medicaid significantly distort work incentives …