The Effect of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility on the Distribution of Children's Health Insurance Coverage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7801764 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lara D Shore-Sheppard, Lara Shore‐Sheppard (National Bureau of Economic Research, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59 |
| Publication date | 2000-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2696032 |
| OpenAlex | W3122900593 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 8 |
Federal legislation passed in the late 1980s greatly expanded the Medicaid program to include children in families with incomes at and above the poverty threshold, regardless of family structure. Using March Current Population Survey data, the author evaluates how the expansions affected private and public insurance coverage levels across the income distribution. Estimates of the extent of take-up of public coverage and substitution of private coverage are used to generate distributions of coverage under two counterfactual situations: absence of expansions, and absence of substitution. The results indicate that the expansions had an equalizing effect on coverage levels across the lower five deciles of the income distribution between 1988 and 1995. In their absence, coverage would have fallen significantly in the third through fifth income deciles. Also, if all of the increased Medicaid enrollment had come from the uninsured population, inequality in coverage levels would have decreased even further
Counterfactual thinking · Current Population Survey · Decile · Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics) · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Health insurance · Legislation · Medicaid · Political science · Population · Poverty · Private insurance · Sociology · Statistics · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Healthcare Policy and Management · Law · Mathematics · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2024 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |