How did welfare reform affect the health insurance coverage of women and children?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To measure the change in U.S. women and children's health insurance coverage as a result of welfare reform (i.e. the creation of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or TANF) in 1996.

Data source

1992-1999 longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) merged with data on the timing of state implementation of welfare reform after 1996. Two key advantages of the SIPP data are that they permit matching type of insurance coverage to the welfare policy environment in each state in each month, and permit controlling for individual-level fixed effects.

Study design

We measure how much insurance coverage changed after welfare reform using a difference in differences method that eliminates the influence of time-invariant unobserved i

SUBMITTER: Cawley J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1702522 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature