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Supplemental Social Insurance and the Health of the Poor

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Paul J. Taubman
Robin C. Sickles

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In 1974 the federal government instituted Supplemental Social Insurance(SSI). The eligible group was the elderly on welfare and disabled individuals.The program distributed extra income and made people eligible for Medicaid in all states except Arizona which did not have Medicaid. We used subjective and objective health information in the Retirement History Survey (RHS) to examine the impact of the program. The RHS is a sample that began in 1969 and included heads of households who were 58 to 63 years old. The respondents or widows were resurveyed every second year through 1977. Before 1974 those who subsequently received SSI were in much worse health than those who did not.After1974 the differences in health were small and not statistically significant.

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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 1062.

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  1. Akin, John S. & Guilkey, David K. & Sickles, Robin, 1979. "A random coefficient probit model with an application to a study of migration," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 11(2-3), pages 233-246. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Paul J. Taubman & Sherwin Rosen, 1982. "Healthiness, Education, and Marital Status," NBER Working Papers 0611, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. Parsons, Donald O, 1982. "The Male Labour Force Participation Decision: Health, Reported Health, and Economic Incentives," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 49(193), pages 81-91, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Robin C. Sickles & Paul J. Taubman, 1984. "An Analysis of the Health and Retirement Status of the Elderly," NBER Working Papers 1459, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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