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Public Insurance and Mortality: Evidence from Medicaid Implementation.
- Source :
- Journal of Political Economy; Feb2018, Vol. 126 Issue 1, p216-262, 47p, 9 Charts, 9 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2018
-
Abstract
- This paper provides new evidence that Medicaid’s introduction reduced infant and child mortality in the 1960s and 1970s. Mandated coverage of all cash welfare recipients induced substantial cross-state variation in the share of children immediately eligible for the program. Before Medicaid, higher- and lower-eligibility states had similar infant and child mortality trends. After Medicaid, public insurance utilization increased and mortality fell more rapidly among children and infants in high-Medicaid-eligibility states. Mortality among nonwhite children on Medicaid fell by 20 percent, leading to a reduction in aggregate nonwhite child mortality rates of 11 percent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MEDICAID
INFANT mortality
CHILD mortality
HEALTH insurance
PUBLIC health
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00223808
- Volume :
- 126
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Political Economy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 127846245
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1086/695528