Take-Up of Public Insurance and Crowd-out of Private Insurance Under Recent CHIP Expansions to Higher Income Children / Carole Roan Gresenz, Sarah E. Edgington, Miriam J. Laugesen, José J. Escarce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gresenz, Carole Roan, 1969-

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Edgington, Sarah E.

Laugesen, Miriam

Escarce, José J.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w17658.

NBER working paper series no. w17658

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.

Summary:

We analyze the effects of states' expansions of CHIP eligibility to children in higher income families during 2002-2009 on take-up of public coverage, crowd-out of private coverage, and rates of uninsurance. Our results indicate these expansions were associated with limited uptake of public coverage and only a two percentage point reduction in the uninsurance rate among these children. Because not all of the take-up of public insurance among eligible children is accounted for by children who transfer from being uninsured to having public insurance, our results suggest that there may be some crowd-out of private insurance coverage; the upper bound crowd-out rate we calculate is 46 percent.

Notes:

Print version record

December 2011.