Date of Award
Fall 2018
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Department
Moore School of Business
First Advisor
Lindsey Woodworth
Abstract
The aim of this study is to estimate the effect of Medicaid expansion on the number of deaths from heart attacks using a difference in differences model. We modified the standard difference in differences framework to by including both state and year fixed effects to account for the fact that states expanded Medicaid at different times. Furthermore, we added state specific linear time trends as well as state unemployment rates as controls to test the robustness of the model. We obtained our data from the Center for Disease Control’s Underlying Causes of Death Database. We found that Medicaid expansion had a statistically insignificant effect on heart attack mortality which would imply that Medicaid expansion did not affect heart attack mortality.
Rights
© 2018, Gabrielle Epelle
Recommended Citation
Epelle, G.(2018). The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Heart Attack Mortality. (Master's thesis). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/5046