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ArticleJournal of health and social behavior2018

Early-life Medicaid Coverage and Intergenerational Economic Mobility.

Rourke L O'Brien, Cassandra L Robertson

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Article in Journal of health and social behavior, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Rourke L O'Brien1 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Cassandra L Robertson2 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Funding

Center for Demography and EcologyR24HD047873 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI RAYMO, JAMES M · 2004 to 2013
$7.2M
Scientific and Technical CoreP2CHD047873 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI Katherine J. Curtis · 2014 to 2026
$5.1M
NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD047873NICHD NIH HHS R24 HD047873
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

New data reveal significant variation in economic mobility outcomes across U.S. localities. This suggests that social structures, institutions, and public policies-particularly those that influence critical early-life environments-play an important role in shaping mobility processes. Using new county-level estimates of intergenerational economic mobility for children born between 1980 and 1986, we exploit the uneven expansions of Medicaid eligibility across states to isolate the causal effect of this specific policy change on mobility outcomes. Instrumental-variable regression models reveal that increasing the proportion of low-income pregnant women eligible for Medicaid improved the mobility outcomes of their children in adulthood. We find no evidence that Medicaid coverage in later childhood years influences mobility outcomes. This study has implications for the normative evaluation of this policy intervention as well as our understanding of mobility processes in an era of rising inequality.

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IncomeMedicaidPovertySocial MobilityAdultFemaleHumansMaleSocioeconomic FactorsUnited Stateseconomic mobilityhealth insuranceinequalitypublic policy

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PMID29672187
PMCPMC5993430

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