The Private Provision of Public Services: Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid

We thank Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Amitabh Chandra, Jeff Clemens, Zack Cooper, Leemore Dafny, Craig Garthwaite, Dan Kessler, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Aaron Schwartz, Julia Smith, and Becky Staiger, as well as seminar participants at ASHEcon 2022, Boston University, Brown University, Congressional Budget Office, the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Duke Kunshan University, the Empirical Health Law Conference, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Lehigh University, the Ohio State University, the University of Pennsylvania Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, Stanford, the Hoover Institution Campbell Fellows Conference, University of Texas at Austin, and Yale University. Geruso gratefully acknowledges support by grant P2CHD042849, Population Research Center, awarded to the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The conclusions and opinions presented in here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Louisiana Department of Health or any funder. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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