Researchers from Urban Institute Describe Findings in Managed Care (Does Subsidized Public Health Insurance for Parents Improve Children’s Human Capital and Close Achievement Gaps?): Managed Care

2023 APR 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators discuss new findings in Managed Care. According to news reporting from Washington, District of Columbia, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Between 2009 and 2018, many states dramatically changed income eligibility limits for parental Medicaid. We examine whether increasing parental Medicaid eligibility had spillover benefits on children’s development.”

Financial support for this research came from William T. Grant Foundation’s Reducing Inequality grant initiative.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Urban Institute, “We study the effects of state-level changes in parental income limits for Medicaid on 3rd through 8th grade math-ematics and English-language arts (ELA) achievement using county-level administrative test score data. We find that a 50-percentage point increase in parental Medicaid income limits, roughly equal to the average state in-crease in eligibility over this period, is associated with a 1.5% reduction in the socioeconomic achievement gap for math and a 3% reduction in the white-black math achievement gap. Math test scores improved significantly following parental Medicaid eligibility expansions among black students residing in poorer counties, with little estimated change in test scores for black students in higher income counties. We find no effect in ELA achievement gaps or white-Hispanic test score gaps.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Our findings suggest that means-tested policies that improve parental and family wellbeing have important spillover benefits to children’s educational achievement and can help reduce inequities in children’s human capital development.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Does Subsidized Public Health Insurance for Parents Improve Children’s Human Capital and Close Achievement Gaps? Economics of Education Review, 2023;93. Economics of Education Review can be contacted at: Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Economics of Education Review - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/economics-of-education-review/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Anuj Gangopadhyaya, Urban Institute, 500 Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, DC 20024, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2023.102369. 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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