Evaluations of changes to the Medicaid program have focused on increases in the generosity of income cutoffs for … care. We examine the effects of these three types of policies (changes in income eligibility, administrative reforms, and ….S. births between 1990 and 1996. We find that increases in income cutoffs increased the use of prenatal care, while decreases in …

important predictor of children's health status, the importance of income for predicting health has fallen for children 9 to 17 … these children in the past decade are responsible for the decline in the importance of income. We find that while …This paper investigates the effects of expanding public health insurance eligibility for older children. Using data …

children. We examine both the probability that individual children were Medicaid-covered and their utilization of care. We find … children are more likely to be enrolled in Medicaid where Medicaid managed care organizations are more prevalent, whereas black … children are less likely to be enrolled. Also, toddlers are less likely to be enrolled than school age children. These lower …

sizeable among children born to mothers whose closest hospital had a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, suggest- ing that insurance …

and on the utilization of medical services among children of natives and children of immigrants. Children of immigrants … Medicaid regulations, I find that recent expansions of eligibility had negligible effects on Medicaid coverage among children … of immigrants, although coverage rose among children of the native born. Among immigrants in border states, eligibility …

of the Medicaid program to low income children. We find that these expansions roughly doubled the fraction of children …The poor health status of children in the U.S. relative to other industrialized nations has motivated recent efforts to … extend insurance coverage to underprivileged children. There is little past evidence that extending eligibility for public …

abortion. Our results suggest that restrictions do increase the probability that African-American and low income women carry a …

Data from the National Longitudinal Surveys are used to compare the medical care received by children covered by … Medicaid with that of other similar children. The longitudinal dimension of the data is exploited as we examine differences … probability of both black and white children receiving routine checkups but with increases in the number of doctor visits for …

There is continuing controversy about the extent to which publicly insured children are treated differently than … privately insured children, and whether differences in treatment matter. We show that on average, hospitals are less likely to … admit publicly insured children than privately insured children who present at the ER and the gap grows during high flu …