Association Between State-Level Medicaid Expansion and Eviction Rates.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Prior research has identified associations between housing insecurity and poor health outcomes.

Objective

To evaluate the association between US state Medicaid expansions and reductions in eviction; to examine the persistence of these associations and how they vary across US states and counties.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study of 25 398 county-year observations (across 40 states) used US eviction and census data for the years 2002 through 2018 (ie, 17 years). County-level associations were estimated using interactive fixed effects counterfactual estimators, and models were selected using cross validation. Across-county treatment association heterogeneities were assessed using multivariable regression methods. Analyses were performed in J

SUBMITTER: Linde S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9857591 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature