Title: Stemming the tide?
Description: "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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Subjects: Child health services, Medicaid, Medical care, Poor children
Places: United States