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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20178
来源ID	Working Paper 20178
	The Effect of Child Health Insurance Access on Schooling: Evidence from Public Insurance Expansions
	Sarah Cohodes; Daniel Grossman; Samuel Kleiner; Michael F. Lovenheim
发表日期	2014-05-29
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	Public health insurance programs comprise a large share of federal and state government expenditures. Although a sizable literature analyzes the effects of these programs on health care utilization and health outcomes, little prior work has examined the long-term effects and resultant health improvements on important outcomes, such as educational attainment. We contribute to filling this gap in the literature by examining the effects of the public insurance expansions among children in the 1980s and 1990s on their future educational attainment. Our findings indicate that expanding health insurance coverage for low-income children increases the rate of high school completion and college completion. These estimates are robust to only using federal Medicaid expansions, and mostly are due to expansions that occur when the children are older (i.e., not newborns). We present suggestive evidence that better health is one of the mechanisms driving our results by showing that Medicaid eligibility when young translates into better teen health. Overall, our results indicate that the long-run benefits of public health insurance are substantial.
主题	Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20178
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577851
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sarah Cohodes,Daniel Grossman,Samuel Kleiner,et al. The Effect of Child Health Insurance Access on Schooling: Evidence from Public Insurance Expansions. 2014.