PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - John C. Ham
AU  - Serkan Ozbeklik
AU  - Lara D. Shore-Sheppard
TI  - Estimating Heterogeneous Takeup and Crowd-Out Responses to Existing Medicaid Income Limits and their Nonmarginal Expansions
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.49.4.872
DP  - 2014 Oct 02
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 872--905
VI  - 49
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/49/4/872.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/49/4/872.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2014 Oct 02; 49
AB  - We use a switching probit model and the income-limit-based structure of Medicaid eligibility for children to estimate treatment effects of nonmarginal Medicaid expansions on Medicaid takeup, private insurance coverage, and crowd-out, as well as crowd-out for those eligible for Medicaid under rules already in place. Many of these estimates are not found in existing work on public insurance and cannot be calculated with the linear probability model used by previous work in this literature. We provide an estimation approach that is straightforward to implement yet yields precise treatment effects.