| Notes |
When researchers studied administrative and other data in connection with Oregon's Medicaid expansion, they found enrollment
was associated with lower depression rates, higher ER use, and no significant change on employment. Submitted by: J-PAL North
America.
When researchers worked with H&R Block, they found that a streamlined aid process improved access to college for individuals
with limited means. Submitted by: J-PAL North America.
When South Carolina launched an Integrated Data System, it made it easier for the government and independent evaluators to
assess the impact of government programs. Submitted by: J-PAL North America.
When researchers leading the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment used access to tax records to comprehensively examine
the long-term impacts of housing voucher programs and moves to lower-poverty neighborhoods, then they were able to conduct
the critical long-term follow-up analysis to assure equivalent data coverage for both treatment and control groups without
incurring the formidable and expensive task of long-term surveys. Submitted by: J-PAL North America.
When South Carolina replaced their quasi-random, “round robin” procedure, to a
explicitly random procedure for Medicaid beneficiaries, then researchers were able to analyze the effect of different managed care
plans by matching records of beneficiaries’ plan assignments to various sources of administrative data, including data from
Medicaid claims, the Department of Mental Health, the Department of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services, and vital records for
“cream skimming” effects—i.e., whether differences in health outcomes across MCOs is the result of different features of the
MCOs. Submitted by: J-PAL North America. |