This study provides plausibly causal estimates of the effect of public insurance coverage on the employment of nonelderly, nondisabled adults without dependent children ("childless adults"). We use regression discontinuity and propensity score matching difference-in-differences methods to take...

This brief discusses the potential for self-reported health measures to serve as data inputs for predictive modeling tools for state Medicaid agencies. The results are encouraging, finding that a simple series of self-reported health measures meets established statistical thresholds for...

This paper estimates the effect that premiums in Medicaid have on the length of enrollment of program beneficiaries. Whether and how low income-families will participate in the exchanges and in states’ Medicaid programs depends crucially on the structure and amounts of the premiums they will...