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Does Publicly Provided Health Insurance Improve the Health of Low-Income Children in the United States

Kaestner, Robert - 1999

In this study we analyze the effect of Medicaid on children's heath. We examine the effect of Medicaid on a variety of … known to be sensitive to medical intervention and are objective measures of children's health. The results of this paper … provide at best weak support for the hypothesis that Medicaid improves the health of low-income children …

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The Effect of Welfare Reform on Prenatal Care and Birth Weight

Kaestner, Robert - 2003

Welfare reform has resulted in a dramatic decline in welfare caseloads and some have claimed that a significant number of low-income women may be without health insurance as a result. The loss of insurance may reduce low-income, pregnant women's health care utilization, and this may adversely...

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The Effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on Financial Wellbeing

Hu, Luojia - 2016

We examine the effect of the Medicaid expansions under the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on consumer financial outcomes using data from a major credit reporting agency for a large, national sample of adults. We employ the synthetic control method to compare individuals...

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