The Effect of Medicaid on Crime: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

We thank Josie Fisher, Lisa Smith, Annetta Zhou, and especially Innessa Colaiacovo for exceptional research assistance. We are especially grateful to Sarah Taubman who played a key role in developing the pre-analysis plan on which this paper is based. We are indebted to Kelly Officer for her generous assistance in obtaining the OJIN data and to the extraordinary assistance of the OHA and DMAP offices in Oregon in working with the OHIE lottery list. We gratefully acknowledge funding for the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment from the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the Department of Health and Human Services, the California HealthCare Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Institute on Aging (P30AG012810, RC2AGO36631 and R01AG0345151), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the U.S. Social Security Administration (through grant 5 RRC 08098400-03-00 to the National Bureau of Economic Research as part of the SSA Retirement Research Consortium). We also gratefully acknowledge Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ matching funds for this evaluation. The findings and conclusions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not represent the views of SSA, the National Institute on Aging, the National Institutes of Health, any agency of the Federal Government, any of our funders, or the NBER. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the National Bureau of Economic Research. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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