Table 3.

Presence of Depressive Symptomsa

	Control Mean	Effect of Medicaid Coverage	P‐Value
	(1)	(2)	(3)
Positive Depression Screen (% with PHQ‐8 ≥ 10) b	30.02	−9.15	0.02
		(3.85)
Among those with prelottery depression diagnosis	52.05	−13.12	0.07
		(7.20)
Among those without prelottery depression diagnosis	18.14	−5.26	0.19
		(3.99)
p‐value of difference			0.34
Total PHQ‐8 Score	7.02	−1.18	0.02
	(6.01)	(0.50)
Little interest/pleasure	0.83	−0.15	0.06
	(0.98)	(0.08)
Feeling depressed	0.83	−0.26	0.00
	(0.98)	(0.08)
Trouble sleeping or oversleeping	1.29	−0.20	0.04
	(1.17)	(0.10)
Feeling tired	1.31	−0.26	0.00
	(1.07)	(0.09)
Poor appetite or overeating	0.88	−0.06	0.50
	(1.10)	(0.09)
Feeling bad about self	0.72	−0.08	0.33
	(0.99)	(0.08)
Trouble concentrating	0.68	−0.06	0.49
	(1.02)	(0.08)
Abnormal energy level	0.49	−0.09	0.22
	(0.87)	(0.07)
Mental‐Health‐Related Quality of Life b	44.39	1.95	0.047
Mental Component Scale	(11.38)	(0.98)

^aFor each sample, the first column reports the control mean of the dependent variable (with standard deviation for continuous outcomes in parentheses). The second column reports the estimated local average treatment effect of Medicaid coverage (with standard error in parentheses). See Appendix for estimating equations and detail on functional form. The third column reports the p‐value of the estimated effects. All regressions include indicators for the number of household members on the lottery list and adjust standard errors for household clusters. All analysis is weighted using survey weights. PHQ‐8 scoring: 0 is no days of symptoms, 1 is several days, 2 is more than half the days, and 3 is nearly every day. Samples consist of all in‐person interview respondents (n = 12,229), those with a prelottery diagnosis of depression (n = 4,166) and those without (n = 8,063).

^bAggregate result previously reported in Baicker et al (2013).8