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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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Re-examining the Effects of Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2008

This paper analyzes the effect of Medicaid eligibility expansions on the health insurance coverage of women giving birth and on the use of prenatal care and infant health, controlling for year and state effects and state-specific trends that may be correlated with expansions in Medicaid...

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Does Medicaid Coverage for Pregnant Women Affect Prenatal Health Behaviors?

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2015

expansions for pregnant women and children during late-1980s through mid-1990s to examine effects on several prenatal health …

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Medicaid Managed Care and Infant Health : A National Evaluation

Kaestner, Robert - 2002

In this study, we examine the effects of Medicaid managed care (MMC) on prenatal care utilization and infant health. We obtain separate estimates of the effect of primary care case management (PCCM) managed care programs and HMO managed care plans on prenatal care utilization, birth weight, and...

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Medicaid Expansions and The Crowding Out of Private Health Insurance

Yazici, Esel Y. - 1998

In this paper, we re-examine the question of crowd out among children. Our primary contribution is the use of … longitudinal data. These data allow us to identify several groups of children depending on whether their eligibility for Medicaid … was affected by the eligibility expansions, and to investigate whether changes in insurance coverage of children affected …

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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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