TY  - JOUR
AU  - Shore-Sheppard,Lara D.
TI  - Stemming the Tide? The Effect of Expanding Medicaid Eligibility on Health Insurance
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11091
PY  - 2005
Y2  - 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11091
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11091.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Lara Shore-Sheppard
Department of Economics
Williams College
121 Southworth Street
Williamstown, MA  01267
Tel: 413/597-2226
Fax: 413/597-4045
E-Mail: lshore@williams.edu
AB  - Despite considerable research, there is little consensus about the impact of Medicaid eligibility expansions for low-income children. In this paper, I reexamine the expansions' impact on Medicaid take-up and private insurance "crowd-out." Focusing on the most influential estimates of the expansions' impact, I show that while many of the critiques leveled at these estimates have little effect on their magnitude, accounting for age-specific trends in coverage produces estimates similar to others in the literature. Estimating the impact of later expansions using additional years of data, I find low rates of take-up and no evidence of crowding out.
ER  -