Saving teens: Using a policy discontinuity to estimate the effects of medicaid eligibility

Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 556-588

  Wherry, Laura R ^a   Meyer, Bruce D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH INSURANCE; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84983490300     PISSN: 0022166X     EISSN: 15488004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/jhr.51.3.0913-5918R1     Document Type: Article

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