Table 4.
Adjusted estimates of the relationship between the fee bump and the number of prenatal care visits among Medicaid-insured women in 37 states (n=6,214,618)
| By Race and Ethnicity | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | White, Non-Hispanic | Black, Non-Hispanic | Other, Non-Hispanic | Hispanic | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Panel A. All States in Analytical Sample | |||||
| Large fee bump | |||||
| states × Post | |||||
| Coefficient | 0.13 | 0.17* | 0.24** | 0.05 | −0.06 |
| 95% CI | (−0.02, 0.29) | (0.00, 0.33) | (0.10, 0.39) | (−0.14, 0.23) | (−0.23, 0.10) |
| Mean of | |||||
| Dependent Var | 10.78 | 11.08 | 10.17 | 10.56 | 10.83 |
| N | 6,214,618 | 2,383,501 | 1,267,105 | 367,107 | 2,196,905 |
| Panel B. States vithout Medicaid Expansion by 2014 | |||||
| Large fee bump | |||||
| states × Post | |||||
| Coefficient | 0.20* | 0.18* | 0.33* | 0.02 | 0.01 |
| 95% CI | (0.03, 0.37) | (0.02, 0.34) | (0.07, 0.59) | (−0.26, 0.29) | (−0.22, 0.24) |
| Mean of | |||||
| Dependent Var | 10.45 | 10.88 | 10.18 | 9.93 | 10.16 |
| N | 2,783,603 | 1,142,940 | 697,871 | 115,837 | 826,955 |
Notes: Unit of observation is individual birth. Cluster-robust standard errors in parentheses, clustered by state in Panel A and by county in Panel B. All regressions control for mother, county and state characteristics in Table 1, as well as year-month and state fixed effects.
p<0.05,
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