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Evaluating insurance coverage at the individual level abstracts away from the family-level decision making behind … parents and children, and even among children in different age groups. Having different insurance sources, or a mix of insured … and uninsured members of a family, may be disruptive to consistent medical care. In this paper we investigate how changes …
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This article explores the role of the Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) cash benefit programs in providing access to public health insurance coverage among working-aged people with disabilities, using a sample of administrative records spanning 84...
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This paper examines the rise of the social protection agenda in Zambia, and demonstrates that this has two alternative drivers: shifting dynamics within Zambia's political settlement and the promotional efforts of a transnational policy coalition. We compare the cases of social cash transfers...
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 expanded eligibility for public health insurance, Medicaid, to nearly all adults ages 18-64 with household incomes below 138% of the federal poverty line and living in states that opted to participate in the Medicaid expansion. The ACA Medicaid expansion can...
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families on average. However, the relationship between family income and health insurance is non-linear, as children near the … between family income and children's health insurance status has been flattening over time, (2) controlling for family income … health insurance, and (3) the relationship between family income and children's health insurance status is closer to …
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extended Medicaid eligibility of children leads to positive contemporaneous labor supply responses of both parents. The … estimated effects are concentrated among mothers with non-white children and fathers with white children. …
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among households with children, including measures that capture hardship explicitly experienced by children. Using data from …%, respectively. Among children themselves, eligibility reduces rates of food insecurity and very low food security by 20% each. The … effects are stronger for Black and Hispanic households as well as households that have children under 6 years old …
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states with a shift of program financial resources away from children toward nonaged nondisabled adults. We examine Medicaid … expenditures per capita for beneficiary categories including children, aged adults, and the disabled, as well as for nonaged … shift of financial resources away from children in expansion states. States that expanded Medicaid per the terms of the ACA …
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While a large literature examines the immediate and long-run effects of public health insurance, much less is known about the impacts of total program exposure on child developmental outcomes. This paper uses an instrumental variable strategy to estimate the effect of cumulative eligibility gain...
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Families with children receive support from the tax-benefit system to a different extent across countries. In Spain … providing income support to families with children. In this paper we provide an in-depth assessment of the income support to … families with children in Spain. We distinguish between three different forms of income support: (1) benefits aimed to ease the …
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