Replication data for: The War on Poverty's Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Martha J. Bailey; Andrew Goodman-Bacon

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Project Citation:

Bailey, Martha J., and Goodman-Bacon, Andrew. Replication data for: The War on Poverty’s Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2015. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112871V1

Project Description

Summary: This paper uses the rollout of the first Community Health Centers (CHCs) to study the longer-term health effects of increasing access to primary care. Within ten years, CHCs are associated with a reduction in age-adjusted mortality rates of 2 percent among those 50 and older. The implied 7 to 13 percent decrease in one-year mortality risk among beneficiaries amounts to 20 to 40 percent of the 1966 poor/non-poor mortality gap for this age group. Large effects for those 65 and older suggest that increased access to primary care has longer-term benefits, even for populations with near universal health insurance. (JEL H75, I12, I13, I18, I32, I38, J14)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      H75 State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
      I12 Health Behavior
      I13 Health Insurance, Public and Private
      I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
      I32 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
      I38 Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
      J14 Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination

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