TY  - JOUR
AU  - Yazici,Esel Y.
AU  - Kaestner,Robert
TI  - Medicaid Expansions and The Crowding Out of Private Health Insurance
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6527
PY  - 1998
Y2  - April 1998
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6527
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6527.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Robert Kaestner
Institute of Government and Public Affairs
University of Illinois
815 West Van Buren Street, Suite 525
Chicago, IL  60607
Tel: 312/996-8227
E-Mail: kaestner.robert@gmail.com
AB  - In this paper, we re-examine the question of crowd out among children. Our primary contribution is the use of longitudinal data.  These data allow us to identify several groups of children depending on whether their eligibility for Medicaid was affected by the eligibility expansions, and to investigate whether changes in insurance coverage of children affected by the expansions differed from changes in insurance coverage of children unaffected by the expansions.  For example, we directly measure whether children who became eligible for Medicaid due to the expansions decreased their enrollment in private insurance plans faster than children whose eligibility for Medicaid was unaffected by the expansions.  Our results suggest that there was relatively little crowd out among children.  We estimate that 14.5 percent of the recent increase in Medicaid enrollment came from private insurance.
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