The 2014 Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion had positive spillover effects, increasing participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by almost 3 percentage points (or 7%) among low income individuals
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The 2014 Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion had positive spillover effects, increasing participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by almost 3 percentage points (or 7%) among low income individuals
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0267244
Article Title: The Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion: A difference-in-differences study of spillover participation in SNAP
Author Countries: U.S.A.
Funding: PC acknowledges financial support from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (https://www.ahrq.gov/) through Training Grant No. T32-HS000046. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The content does not necessarily represent the official views of AHRQ, and all errors are the authors’ own.
Journal
PLoS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0267244
Article Title
The Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion: A difference-in-differences study of spillover participation in SNAP
Article Publication Date
4-May-2022
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.