Data and Code for: The Long-Run Effects of Childhood Insurance Coverage: Medicaid Implementation, Adult Health and Labor Market Outcomes

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

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Project Citation:

Goodman-Bacon, Andrew. Data and Code for: The Long-Run Effects of Childhood Insurance Coverage: Medicaid Implementation, Adult Health and Labor Market Outcomes. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2021. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-07-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/E127621V1

Project Description

Summary: These files contain the data and code for the journal article "The Long-Run Effects of Childhood Insurance Coverage: Medicaid Implementation, Adult Health and Labor Market Outcome," American Economic Review.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Medicaid; long-run effects; health economics; Great Society; War on Poverty; marginal value of public funds

JEL Classification:
      H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
      I13 Health Insurance, Public and Private
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1936 – 2017 (Cohorts born 1936-1976, outcomes measured 2000-2017)

Collection Date(s): 2015 – 2020 (all secondary data)

Universe: Main sample: adults 25-64 in the years 2000-2017, born in the US between 1936 and 1976.

Data Type(s): administrative records data; aggregate data; census/enumeration data; observational data; survey data

Collection Notes: Main data are publicly available microsamples from Decennial Censuses and the American Community Survey, publicly available mortality records from 1979-2004 and restricted access mortality records from 2005-2016 (available upon request from NAPHSIS).

Methodology

Response Rate: See Census/ACS reports:

https://www.census.gov/acs/www/methodology/sample-size-and-data-quality/response-rates/

and from CDC:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001356.htm

Sampling: See Census/ACS documentation:

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/methodology.html

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