Data and Code for: The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Samuel Arenberg, University of Texas-Austin; Seth Neller, University of Texas-Austin; Sam Stripling, University of Texas-Austin
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Project Citation:
Arenberg, Samuel, Neller, Seth, and Stripling, Sam. Data and Code for: The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-12-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E169741V1
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Summary:
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The materials here will replicate all of the tables and figures in "The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration" (Arenberg, Neller, and Stripling, 2022).
This paper identifies an important spillover associated with public health insurance: reduced incarceration. In 1990, Congress passed legislation that increased Medicaid eligibility for individuals born after September 30, 1983. We show that Black children born just after the cutoff are 5 percent less likely to be incarcerated by age 28, driven primarily by a decrease in incarcerations connected to financially motivated offenses. Children of other races, who experienced almost no gain in Medicaid coverage as a result of the policy, demonstrate no such decline. We find that reduced incarceration in adulthood substantially offsets the initial costs of expanding eligibility.
Scope of Project
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Medicaid;
incarceration
JEL Classification:
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H51 National Government Expenditures and Health
I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
I38 Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
H51 National Government Expenditures and Health
I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
I38 Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
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