Data and Code for: Multi-Generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Chloe East, University of Colorado Denver; Sarah Miller, University of Michigan; Marianne Page, University of California, Davis; Laura Wherry, New York University

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Project Citation:

East, Chloe, Miller, Sarah, Page, Marianne, and Wherry, Laura. Data and Code for: Multi-Generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation’s Health. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2022. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-12-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E170801V1

Project Description

Summary: We examine multi-generational impacts of positive in utero health interventions using a new research design that exploits sharp increases in prenatal Medicaid eligibility that occurred in some states. Our analyses are based on U.S. Vital Statistics Natality files, which enables linkages between individuals’ early life Medicaid exposure and the next generation’s health at birth. We find evidence that the health benefits associated with treated generations’ early life program exposure extend to later offspring. Our results suggest that the returns on early life health investments may be substantively underestimated.

Funding Sources: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD093898); National Science Foundation (SMA1327768); Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (74926-0); University of California Davis Interdisciplinary Frontiers in the Humanities and Arts seed grant

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Medicaid; intergenerational; safety net

JEL Classification:
      I10 Health: General
      I13 Health Insurance, Public and Private
      I14 Health and Inequality

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1975 – 2017

Universe: Universe of all births in the United States from the Natality Files from the CDC. Representative samples of the U.S. population from the Current Population Survey. Additional auxiliary data sets compiled from sources detailed in the readme.

Data Type(s): administrative records data; medical records; survey data

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