Findings from Appalachian State University in the Area of Managed Care Reported (The Impact of Children’s Access To Public Health Insurance On Their Cognitive Development and Behavior): Managed Care

2024 DEC 04 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Data detailed on Managed Care have been presented. According to news reporting out of Boone, North Carolina, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “While a large literature examines the immediate and long-run effects of public health insurance, much less is known about the impacts of total program exposure on child developmental outcomes. This paper uses an instrumental variable strategy to estimate the effect of cumulative eligibility gain on cognitive and behavioral outcomes measured at three points during childhood.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Appalachian State University, “Our analysis leverages substantial variation in cumulative eligibility due to the dramatic public insurance expansions between the 1980s and 2000s. We find that increased eligibility improves child cognitive skills and present suggestive evidence on better behavioral outcomes. There are notable heterogeneous effects across the subgroups of interest. Both prenatal eligibility and childhood eligibility are important for driving gains in the test scores at older ages.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Improved child health is found to be a mediator of the impact of increased eligibility.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The Impact of Children’s Access To Public Health Insurance On Their Cognitive Development and Behavior. Journal of Health Economics, 2024;98. Journal of Health Economics can be contacted at: Elsevier, Radarweg 29, 1043 Nx Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Journal of Health Economics - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-health-economics/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Ji Yan, Appalachian State University, Dept. of Economics, Boone, NC 28608, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2024.102935. 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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