Table 3.

Changes in Insurance Distribution of Children Eligible under the Poverty-Related Expansions, Massachusetts and the Rest of the Nation, 1997–1999

					Difference-in-Difference
	Massachusetts		Rest of the Nation
	1997	1999	1997	1999	Unadjusted	Regression Adjusted with Offers1	Regression Adjusted without Offers2
Medicaid	42.3	63.6	30.3	33.9	17.7*	14.2*	15.4*
Uninsured	18.1	8.4	21.7	22.6	−10.6*	−11.0*	−9.3*
Private	39.3	28.0	48.0	43.6	−7.1	−3.2	−6.1
Crowd-Out Estimate						22.5%	39.6%
Estimate

¹Regressions include controls for year, year^*Massachusetts, Massachusetts, age, race, and health status of child; work status, education and nativity of parent; and income, number of children, welfare history of the family, and whether the parents have an offer of employer-sponsored coverage.

²Regressions include above mentioned controls but do not control for whether the parents have an offer of employer-sponsored coverage.

^*Changes in rate for Massachusetts is significantly different than changes in the rate for the rest of the nation at the 0.05 level.