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Take-Up of Public Insurance and Crowd-Out of Private Insurance Under Recent Chip Expansions to Higher Income Children

Gresenz, Carole R. - 2012

We analyze the effects of states' expansions of CHIP eligibility to children in higher income families during 2002-2009 on take-up of public coverage, crowd-out of private coverage, and rates of uninsurance. Our results indicate these expansions were associated with limited uptake of public...

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Saving Teens : Using a Policy Discontinuity to Estimate the Effects of Medicaid Eligibility

Meyer, Bruce D. - 2012

This paper uses a policy discontinuity to identify the immediate and long-term effects of public health insurance coverage during childhood. Our identification strategy exploits a unique feature of several early Medicaid expansions that extended eligibility only to children born after September...

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Out of the Woodwork : Enrollment Spillovers in the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

Sacarny, Adam - 2020

's Medicaid enrollment: for every 9 adults who enroll in Medicaid due to the lottery, one additional child also enrolls at the …

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Medicaid Physician Fees and Access to Care Among Children with Special Health Care Needs

Chatterji, Pinka - 2020

The objective of this study is to use data from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN) to test whether Medicaid physician fees are correlated with access to health services and adequacy of insurance coverage among CSHCN. We use a difference-in-differences...

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Health Insurance Eligibility, Utilization of Medical Care, and Child Health

Currie, Janet - 2008

the Current Population Survey, the National Health Interview Survey, and state-level data on child mortality, we examine … notable reductions in child mortality. Finally, we find that rising Medicaid eligibility is associated with reductions in … racial disparities in the number of visits and in child disparities in the site at which care is delivered …

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The Impact of Children's Public Health Insurance Expansions on Educational Outcomes

Levine, Phillip B. - 2010

This paper examines the impact of public health insurance expansions through both Medicaid and SCHIP on children's educational outcomes, measured by 4th and 8th grade reading and math test scores, available from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). We use a triple difference...

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Has Public Health Insurance for Older Children Reduced Disparities in Access to Care and Health Outcomes?

Currie, Janet - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data from the National Health Interview Surveys from 1986 to 2005, we first show that although income continues to be an important predictor of children's health status, the importance...

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Do Children of Immigrants Make Differential Use of Public Health Insurance?

Currie, Janet - 2010

: becoming eligible increased the probability that a child had a doctor's visit more for immigrants than non-immigrants, but …

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Does Gentrification Displace Poor Children? New Evidence from New York City Medicaid Data

Dragan, Kacie - 2019

The pace of gentrification has accelerated in cities across the country since 2000, and many observers fear it is displacing low-income populations from their homes and communities. We offer new evidence about the consequences of gentrification on mobility, building and neighborhood conditions,...

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The Effect of Child Health Insurance Access on Schooling : Evidence from Public Insurance Expansions

Cohodes, Sarah - 2014

Public health insurance programs comprise a large share of federal and state government expenditures. Although a sizable literature analyzes the effects of these programs on health care utilization and health outcomes, little prior work has examined the long-term effects and resultant health...

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