Journal
HEALTH ECONOMICS
Volume 30, Issue 11, Pages 2943-2951Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/hec.4419
Keywords
Affordable Care Act; child abuse; foster care; health insurance
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Recent research has shown positive externalities of Medicaid expansions on non-health related variables such as crime and child abuse. This paper specifically explores the impact of Medicaid expansions on foster care admissions, with results indicating a significant decrease in foster care admissions, particularly driven by neglect incidents.
Recent papers have documented positive externalities of Medicaid expansions on several non-health related variables, such as crime, financial stress, child support, and child abuse. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between access to public health insurance and foster care admissions following state decisions to expand Medicaid coverage after the Affordable Care Act. Over 70% of all foster care admissions are related to child abuse incidents, which have been found to decrease following the Medicaid expansions. Our results suggest that the Medicaid expansions are associated with a large decrease in foster care admissions, driven by neglect incidents.
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