De Nardi, M;
French, E;
Jones, J;
(2016)
Medicaid insurance in old age.
American Economic Review
, 106
(11)
pp. 3480-3520.
10.1257/aer.20140015.
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Abstract
The old age provisions of the Medicaid program were designed to insure retirees against medical expenses. We estimate a structural model of savings and medical spending and use it to compute the distribution of lifetime Medicaid transfers and Medicaid valuations across currently single retirees. Compensating variation calculations indicate that current retirees value Medicaid insurance at more than its actuarial cost, but that most would value an expansion of the current Medicaid program at less than its cost. These findings suggest that for current single retirees, the Medicaid program may be of the approximately right size.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Medicaid insurance in old age |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1257/aer.20140015 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20140015 |
| Language: | English |
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| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1493288 |
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