Data from University of California Riverside Advance Knowledge in Health and Medicine (The Long Term Relationship Between Childhood Medicaid Expansions and Severe Chronic Conditions In Adulthood): Health and Medicine

2023 JUL 27 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Health and Medicine. According to news reporting out of Riverside, California, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “We test whether the expansions of children’s Medicaid eligibility in the 1980s-1990s resulted in long-term health benefits in terms of severe chronic conditions. Still relatively rare in the field, we use prospective individual-level panel data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) along with the higher quality income measures from the Cross-National Equivalent File (adjusting for taxes, transfers and household size).”

Financial supporters for this research include NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA, National Science Foundation (NSF), NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD).

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of California Riverside, “We observe severe chronic conditions (high blood pressure/heart disease, cancer, diabetes, or lung disease) at ages 30-56 (average age 43.1) for 4670 respondents who were also prospectively observed during childhood (i.e., at ages 0-17). Our analysis exploits within-region temporal variation in childhood Medicaid eligibility and adjusts for state- and individual-level controls. We uniquely concentrate attention on adjusting for childhood income. A standard deviation greater childhood Medicaid eligibility significantly reduces the probability of severe chronic conditions in adulthood by 0.05 to 0.12 (16%-37.5% reduction from mean 0.32). Across the range of observed childhood Medicaid eligibility, the probability is approximately cut in half. Greater childhood Medicaid eligibility also substantially reduces childhood income disparities in severe chronic conditions.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “At higher levels of childhood Medicaid eligibility, we find no significant childhood income disparities in adult severe chronic conditions.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The Long Term Relationship Between Childhood Medicaid Expansions and Severe Chronic Conditions In Adulthood. Social Policy and Administration, 2023. Social Policy and Administration can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Social Policy and Administration - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9515)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting David Brady, University of California Riverside, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, School of Public Policy, Riverside, CA, United States. Additional authors for this research include Manjing Gao, Christian Guerra, Bruce Link and Ulrich Kohler.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12942. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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