Taking Up, Getting Better and Crowding Out: Evaluating Local Effects of the California Healthy Kids Insurance Program

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Abstract: In this paper I use county level data from California to estimate the effects of the California Healthy Kids Insurance Program (CHKIP), an optional state county partnership that expands child eligibility for publicly provided health insurance. The paper is split into three sections: the first on the Political Economy of county selection into the program, the second on the program’s effect on child health outcomes, and the third on estimating the degree to which the program “crowds out” private insurance among children eligible for coverage. In the political economy section I find that the most important predictor of county selection into the program is the percentage of the population who are non-citizens. In the health outcomes section I find that CHKIP increases insurance coverage rates and decreases the likelihood that a child will delay medical care. In the crowd out section, I find no evidence for crowding out among children from families with incomes between %250 and %300 of the Federal Poverty Level, but do find evidence for small levels of crowding out among all children from families with incomes less than %300 of the Federal Poverty Level.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 2009

Author	Pubols, Kyle
Primary advisor	Bhattacharya, Jayanta
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Economics

Subject	Stanford Department of Economics
Subject	California Healthy Kids Insurance Program
Subject	public health insurance
Subject	children
Subject	health outcomes
Subject	private insurance
Subject	Federal Poverty Level
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/qg586dk0116

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Preferred Citation: Pubols, Kyle. (2009). Taking Up, Getting Better and Crowding Out: Evaluating Local Effects of the California Healthy Kids Insurance Program. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/qg586dk0116

Stanford University, Department of Economics, Honors Theses

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