Jointly financed by the federal government and the states, Medicaid represents the second
largest form of public-sector investment in children. Research documents direct positive …

The decoupling of child Medicaid from the cash welfare system greatly increased access to
public health insurance for low‐income children in the United States. In this paper, I show …

We examine the long-term impact of expansions to Medicaid and the State Children's Health
Insurance Program that occurred in the 1980's and 1990's. With administrative data from the …

Although a sizeable literature studies the effect of Medicaid on health, less is known about
its effects on education. We use a discontinuity in Medicaid eligibility based on date of birth …

This paper examines the long-term impact of exposure to Medicaid in early childhood on
adult health and economic status. The staggered timing of Medicaid's adoption across the …

We use administrative data from the Internal Revenue Service to examine long-term impacts
of childhood Medicaid eligibility expansions on outcomes in adulthood at each age from 19 …

This paper investigates the effects of the introduction of Medicaid during the 1960s on next
generations' birth outcomes. A federal mandate that all states must widen the coverage to all …

This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to track the health
coverage of parents in the year before and the year in which their children enroll in …

Many states expanded their Medicaid programs to low-income adults under the Affordable
Care Act (ACA). These expansions increased Medicaid coverage among low-income …

Between 2009 and 2018, many states dramatically changed income eligibility limits for
parental Medicaid. We examine whether increasing parental Medicaid eligibility had …