@article{595879b619c74a6eb5e2c0809744c2c2,
title = "Health insurance eligibility, utilization of medical care, and child health",
abstract = "We study the effect of public insurance for children on their utilization of medical care and health outcomes by exploiting recent expansions of the Medicaid program to low-income children. These expansions doubled the fraction of children eligible for Medicaid between 1984 and 1992. Take-up of these expansions was much less than full, however, even among otherwise uninsured children. Despite this take-up problem, eligibility for Medicaid significantly increased the utilization of medical care, particularly care delivered in physicians' offices. Increased eligibility was also associated with a sizable and significant reduction in child mortality.",
author = "Janet Currie and Jonathan Gruber",
note = "Funding Information: aid expansions, and Joshua Angrist, David Cutler, Jeffrey Grogger, Vivian Hamilton, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Wei-Yin Hu, George Jakubson, Lawrence Katz, James Poterba, Duncan Thomas, Aaron Yelowitz, and seminar participants at Cornell University, Ohio State University, the Canadian Labor Economics Meetings and the National Bureau of Economic Research for helpful comments. Janet Currie gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the University of California at Los Angeles' Center for American Politics and Public Policy. Jonathan Gruber gratefully acknowledges financial support from the National Institute of Aging. All views expressed are solely the authors' and should not be attributed to either organization.",
year = "1996",
month = may,
doi = "10.2307/2946684",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "111",
pages = "431--466",
journal = "Quarterly Journal of Economics",
issn = "0033-5533",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "2",
}