Saving Teens: Using a Policy Discontinuity to Estimate the Effects of Medicaid Eligibility
利用1983年9月30日出生日期断点，研究儿童期医疗补助资格对死亡率的影响，发现黑人儿童后期疾病死亡率下降，白人儿童无类似改善。
Abstract We examine the immediate and longer-term mortality effects of public health insurance eligibility during childhood. Our identification exploits expansions in Medicaid eligibility that applied only to children born after September 30, 1983. This feature resulted in a large discontinuity in the cumulative years of eligibility of children at this birth date cutoff. Under the expansions, black children gained twice the years of Medicaid eligibility as white children. We find a later-life decline in the rate of disease-related mortality for black cohorts born after the cutoff. We find no evidence of a similar mortality improvement for white children.