Table 5

IV Estimates of the Effect of Average Medicaid Eligibility at Birth and During Childhood on Educational Attainment

Medicaid Age EligibilityAge ZeroAge Zero, One to 17
BaselineFEBaselineFE
No high school
    Age zero eligibility−0.006
(0.011)		−0.011
(0.013)		−0.004
(0.011)		−0.008
(0.013)
    Age one to 17 eligibility−0.038***
(0.014)		−0.022
(0.029)
Any college
    Age zero eligibility−0.016
(0.012)		−0.001
(0.014)		−0.017
(0.012)		−0.011
(0.017)
    Age one to 17 eligibility0.032
(0.023)		0.100
(0.070)
BA plus
    Age zero eligibility−0.024*
(0.013)		0.046*
(0.019)		−0.026*
(0.013)		0.039**
(0.019)
    Age one to 17 eligibility0.062*
(0.031)		0.070
(0.068)

  • Source: Authors’ estimation of Equations 3 and 4 in the text using 22–29-year-old respondents from the 2005–12 ACS.

  • Notes: All estimates include an indicator for the cell being nonwhite or not, race-by-age fixed effects, race-by-calendar year fixed effects, and race-by-state of birth fixed effects. “FE” estimates are from Equation 4 and include race by state of birth by calendar year (R-S-Y) fixed effects and race by age by calendar year (R-A-Y) fixed effects. Standard errors clustered at the state of birth level are in parentheses:

  • ↵*** indicates significance at the 1 percent level,

  • ↵** indicates significance at the 5 percent level, and

  • ↵* indicates significance at the 10 percent level.