Ko, Hansoo; Howland, Renata; Glied, Sherry - 2022
assistance to low-income children with disabilities, affects the health of vulnerable children. We use a regression discontinuity … design that exploits an SSI eligibility rule: low-income children born below a birthweight threshold (1,200 grams) are … automatically eligible for SSI. We find that children who were born with a birthweight below the 1,200-gram cutoff are 93% more …