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Replacing Medicaid with an Imperfect Substitute: Implications for Health Inequality

Randall Q. Akee, Timothy J. Halliday, Teresa Molina
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2023, 9 (4) 61-83; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.4.03
Randall Q. Akee
aAssociate professor of public policy and American Indian studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, United States, and a research fellow of both the National Bureau of Economic Research, United States, and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Germany
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Timothy J. Halliday
bProfessor of economics at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, United States, and a research fellow of UHERO, United States, and IZA, Germany
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Teresa Molina
cAssociate professor of economics at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, United States, and a research fellow of UHERO, United States, and a research affiliate of IZA, Germany
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    Event Analyses, Hospitalizations

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Randall Q. Akee, Timothy J. Halliday, Teresa Molina
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