| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP11847 |
| DP11847 Who Receives Medicaid in Old Age? Rules and Reality | |
| Mariacristina De Nardi; Margherita Borella; Eric Baird French | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-02-13 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance to the old who are sick and have little assets and income compared to their medical needs. Thus, it explicitly tests for income, assets, and health or medical needs to determine eligibility. We ask how these rules map into the reality of Medicaid recipiency and what observable characteristics are important to determine who ends up on Medicaid. The data show that both singles and couples with high retirement income can end up on Medicaid at very advanced ages. We find that, conditioning on a large number of observable characteristics, including those that directly relate to Medicaid eligibility criteria, single women are more likely to end up on Medicaid. So are non-whites, but, surprisingly, their higher recipiency is concentrated above the lower income percentiles. We also find that low-income people with a high school diploma or higher are much less likely to end up on Medicaid than their more educated counterparts. All of these effects are large and depend on retirement income in a very non-linear way. |
| 主题 | Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Medicaid Old age Recipiency |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp11847 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/540660 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mariacristina De Nardi,Margherita Borella,Eric Baird French. DP11847 Who Receives Medicaid in Old Age? Rules and Reality. 2017. |
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