Module 4: Medicaid Expansion and Difference-in-Differences
The goal of this module is to understand difference-in-differences as a causal identification strategy. We’ll do this in the context of Medicaid expansion and its effect on uninsurance.
Readings and other links
Links to papers are listed alongside the full reference. PDFs of each paper are also available on Canvas.
- Required readings for this module:
- Chapters 8-9 of Causal Inference: The Mixtape
- Chapters 16-18 of The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality
- Supplemental information and readings:
- Chapter 5 of J. Angrist and J. Pischke, Mostly Harmless Econometrics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009).
- Charles Courtemanche et al., “Early Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Health Insurance Coverage in Medicaid Expansion and Non-Expansion States,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 36, no. 1 (2017): 178–210.
- Barack Obama, “United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps,” Jama 316, no. 5 (2016): 525–532.
- Data for this module:
- Insurance Access and Medicaid Expansion repository