Bailey, Martha J.; Goodman-Bacon, Andrew - In: American Economic Review 105 (2015) 3, pp. 1067-1104
This paper uses the rollout of the first Community Health Centers (CHCs) to study the longer-term health effects of increasing access to primary care. Within ten years, CHCs are associated with a reduction in age-adjusted mortality rates of 2 percent among those 50 and older. The implied 7 to 13...
