TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gresenz,Carole Roan
AU  - Edgington,Sarah E.
AU  - Laugesen,Miriam J.
AU  - Escarce,José J.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Take-Up of Public Insurance and Crowd-out of Private Insurance Under Recent CHIP Expansions to Higher Income Children
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - December 2011; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - We analyze the effects of states' expansions of CHIP eligibility to children in higher income families during 2002-2009 on take-up of public coverage, crowd-out of private coverage, and rates of uninsurance. Our results indicate these expansions were associated with limited uptake of public coverage and only a two percentage point reduction in the uninsurance rate among these children. Because not all of the take-up of public insurance among eligible children is accounted for by children who transfer from being uninsured to having public insurance, our results suggest that there may be some crowd-out of private insurance coverage;  the upper bound crowd-out rate we calculate is 46 percent
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w17658
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w17658
ER  -