TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buchmueller,Thomas
AU  - Lo Sasso,Anthony
AU  - Wong,Kathleen
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - How Did SCHIP Affect the Insurance Coverage of Immigrant Children?
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - July 2007; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) significantly expanded public insurance eligibility and coverage for children in "working poor" families.  Despite this success, it is estimated that over 6 million children who are eligible for public insurance remain uninsured.  An important first step for designing strategies to increase enrollment of eligible but uninsured children is to determine how the take-up of public coverage varies within the population.  Because of their low rates of insurance coverage and unique enrollment barriers, children of immigrants are an especially important group to consider.  We compare the effect of SCHIP eligibility on the insurance coverage of children of foreign-born and native-born parents.  In contrast to research on the earlier Medicaid expansions, we find similar take-up rates for the two groups.  This suggests that state outreach strategies were not only effective at increasing take-up overall, but were successful in reducing disparities in access to coverage
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w13261
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w13261
ER  -