The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Analyzing Government-Provided Health Insurance Take-up Across Demographic Variables

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dc.contributor.authorHoffart, Jelena June
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-15T17:15:01Z
dc.date.available2018-12-15T17:15:01Z
dc.date.issued2018-06
dc.description58 pages. Presented to the Department of Economics and the Robert D. Clark Honors College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science June 2018
dc.description.abstractIn 2008, Oregon policymakers offered low-income and uninsured residents access to health insurance called the Oregon Health Plan Standard through a lottery rationing device. Studies done in conjunction with the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment to examine subsequent outcomes use an instrument variable design where assignment to the treatment group (selection in the lottery) serves as a proxy for actual treatment (enrollment in health insurance). Consequently, previous research assumes that the entire treatment group act as “compliers” and apply for enrollment. This thesis thus examines the likelihood that an individual selected via the lottery system applied to the Oregon Health Plan across demographic variables such as racial and ethnic identification, gender, income strata, educational attainment, employment status, age, household size, and geography. This thesis finds statistically significant evidence to support that take-up of the Oregon Health Plan Standard is non-random across demographic traits.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/24017
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US
dc.subjectEconomicsen_US
dc.subjectPolitical scienceen_US
dc.subjectHealth economyen_US
dc.subjectOHIEen_US
dc.subjectMedicaiden_US
dc.subjectOregon Health Planen_US
dc.subjectTake-upen_US
dc.subjectHealth insuranceen_US
dc.subjectDemographic variablesen_US
dc.titleThe Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Analyzing Government-Provided Health Insurance Take-up Across Demographic Variables
dc.typeThesis/Dissertation

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