-of-pocket medical spending (OOP) and risk exposure among low-income, eligible households as well as the incidence of the cost of … providing insurance. Using data from the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (MEPS), I exploit exogenous variation in Medicaid … eligibility rules across states, income groups and time. I find that public insurance eligibility reduced mean OOP by 18.2% among …

We estimate the effect of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion on county-level mortality in the first four years …