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Medicaid Expansion’s Spillover to the Criminal Justice System: Evidence from Six Urban Counties

Carrie E. Fry, Thomas G. McGuire, Richard G. Frank
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences July 2020, 6 (2) 244-263; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2020.6.2.11
Carrie E. Fry
aA doctoral candidate in health policy at Harvard University
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bProfessor of health economics in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School
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Richard G. Frank
cMargaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School
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