Using matched survey and administrative data to estimate eligibility for the medicare part dlow-income subsidy program

Social Security Bulletin

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 63-82

  Meijer, Erik ^a   Karoly, Lynn A ^b   Michaud, Pierre Carl ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b RAND's Washington office ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEDICARE PART D; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; SELECTION BIAS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955483544     PISSN: 00377910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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