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Title: Three Essays in Health Policy Evaluation

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: This dissertation makes two types of contributions. First, evidence on health safety net programs specifically in the 1960s is relevant to the often virulent claims and firmly held opinions about Johnsons Great Society. Only recently have researchers compiled the necessary data to evaluate the introduction of these programs rigorously. The three chapters outlined above suggest that Medicaid and CHCs generated significant and heretofore unknown benefits. Second, the introduction of these programs provides a unique opportunity to estimate their effects in a more general sense. More and more people have used of Medicaid and CHCs over time, but much of this growth was the result of individual choices or circumstances and, therefore, may not help identify these programs effects separately from other forces that determine their use. I argue that the introduction of Medicaid and CHCs (or aspects of their introduction) do provide unique quasi-experimental variation in poor families exposure to health safety net programs and can, therefore, contribute new evidence on whether and how these programs work. Thus, the effects of Medicaid and CHCs in the 1960s are of interest in their own right, and they provide valuable new evidence on the extent to which these programs work in general.

Url: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/108847/ajgb_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

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Authors: Goodman-Bacon, Andrew J.

Institution: University of Michigan

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Publisher Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS

Topics: Health, Other

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