Evaluation of Three States' Reforms to Cover All Children (2008)

Principal Investigator: Jose Escarce, MD, PhD, UCLA

Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington have recently enacted reforms that provide access to health insurance coverage to all, or nearly all, children through a combination of SCHIP eligibility expansions and voluntary “buy-in” provisions. The study will use econometric analyses of secondary data to estimate the effects of the reforms on children’s insurance coverage, take-up of public coverage, crowd-out of private coverage, and out-of-pocket costs among families with uninsured children. The main data sources will be the public use Annual Social and Economic Supplements (ASEC) of the Current Population Survey (CPS), the public use Washington State Population Surveys (WSPS), and geo-coded versions of the MEPS-Household Component (MEPS-HC).

Read the RWJF Program Results Report for this project.

Publications

Income Eligibility Thresholds, Premium Contributions, and Children's Coverage Outcomes: A Study of CHIP Expansions
(February 2013, Article)

Take-Up of Public Insurance and Crowd-Out of Private Insurance under Recent CHIP Expansions to Higher Income Children
(April 2012, Research Brief)

Relative Affordability of Health Insurance Premiums under CHIP Expansion Programs and the ACA
(July 2011, Article)

CHIP Expansions to Higher-Income Children in Three States: Profiles of Eligibility and Insurance Coverage
(July 2010, Issue Brief)

Evaluation of Three States' REforms to Expand the Availaibility of Children's Health Insurance Coverage 

(November 2009)