The Effect of Health Insurance on Emergency Department Visits
Evidence from an Age-Based Eligibility Threshold
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19314213 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Anderson (0000-0002-4079-1965, Berkeley College), Michael L Anderson (0000-0003-0572-115X, UC Berkeley and NBER), Carlos Dobkin (0000-0002-5171-8325, UC Santa Cruz and NBER), Tal Gross (Columbia University and NBER) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 189-195 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Economics and Statistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6535 • E-ISSN: 1530-9142 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/rest_a_00378 |
| OpenAlex | W2048890065 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 14 |
Health insurance affects the rate at which individuals visit hospitals and emergency departments (EDs). We identify the causal effect of losing health insurance using a regression discontinuity design. We compare individuals just before and after their twenty third birthday, which insurers have used as a cutoff after which students are no longer eligible for their parents' health insurance: 1.5% of young adults lose their health insurance upon turning 23, and this transition leads to a 1.6% decrease in ED visits and a 0.8% decrease in hospital stays. We discuss why these estimates are larger than those observed among teenage populations
Actuarial science · Business · Economics · Emergency department · Family medicine · Health care · Health insurance · Regression discontinuity design · Sociology · Demography · Emergency and Acute Care Studies · Global Health Care Issues · Healthcare Policy and Management · Medicine · Nursing
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |