Enhanced Citizenship Verification and Children’s Medicaid Coverage

Enhanced Citizenship Verification and Children’s Medicaid Coverage

This article examines a potential unintended consequence of the mandated Medicaid citizenship verification requirements of the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act (DRA). We investigate whether or not these new rules led to an increase in the Medicaid exit rate among enrollees using state administrative data from Georgia.

Proposed citation: Marton, J., Snyder, A., Zhou, M. (2016). Enhanced citizenship verification and children’s Medicaid coverage. Economic Inquiry, 54(3), 1670-1683.