children, day-care quality was unrelated to employment. …

Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant … maternal health indicators. We find that the 13 percentage point increase in Medicaid eligibility during the study period was …

private health insurance policy, including the elimination of Medicaid and mandated employer coverage for full time workers … all Medicaid coverage stimulates a 24 percent increase in work for low income single mothers. Poor maternal and child …