Exploring the Effects of Medicaid During Childhood on the Economy and the Budget: Working Paper 2023-07

Elizabeth Ash, William Carrington, Rebecca Heller and Grace Hwang

No 59231, Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office

Abstract: This paper examines the short- and long-term fiscal effects of Medicaid spending on children. In the short run, costs for Medicaid are paid upfront when the children (or their mothers) receive health care. In the long run, Medicaid enrollment during childhood has been shown to increase earnings in adulthood. Those higher earnings imply greater tax revenues and lower transfer payments by the federal government in the future. On a present-value basis, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that long-term fiscal effects of Medicaid spending on children could offset half or

JEL-codes: H20 H50 H60 I13 J3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-11-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hea, nep-lma and nep-pub
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2023-10/59231-Medicaid.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cbo:wpaper:59231

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().