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SHARE Grantee Sharon Long Publishes Early Findings from SHARE Research
September 17, 2009:June 10, 2009. Sharon Long’s paper, “Another Look at the Impacts of Health Reform in
Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), Dr. Long estimated that the uninsurance rate for all non-elderly adults in
While the overall estimate of the impact of health reform on the uninsurance rate is similar, these findings suggest greater gains in insurance coverage for lower-income adults than had been estimated by Dr. Long’s previous research using data from the 2006 and 2007 Massachusetts Health Reform Survey. This early research estimated a 10.5 percent drop in uninsurance rates for lower-income adults in the first year of reform. Dr. Long notes that these differences in the coverage estimates for lower-income adults may reflect differences in how the two surveys measure income, with a larger share of
Click here to link to the full text of Dr. Long's paper (institutional access or AEA membership required to view).
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