The Effects of the ACA Medicaid Expansion on Nationwide Home Evictions and Eviction-Court Initiations: United States, 2000-2016

To evaluate the effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansions on national rates of home eviction and eviction initiation in the United States. Using nationally representative administrative data from The Eviction Lab at Princeton University, we estimated the effects of the ACA Medicaid...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2019-10, Vol.109 (10), p.1379-1383
Main Authors: Zewde, Naomi, Eliason, Erica, Allen, Heidi, Gross, Tal
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
African Americans - statistics & numerical data
AJPH Policy
Court hearings & proceedings
Data analysis
Evictions
Expansion
Government programs
Health care access
Health Policy
Health Reform
Households
Housing
Housing - statistics & numerical data
Housing and Health
Humans
Income inequality
Indigent care
Low income groups
Medicaid
Medicaid - legislation & jurisprudence
Neighborhoods
Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 2010-US
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - legislation & jurisprudence
Population
Poverty
Poverty - statistics & numerical data
Public health
Reduction
Residents
Systematic review
Tenants
Trends
United States
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Summary:To evaluate the effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansions on national rates of home eviction and eviction initiation in the United States. Using nationally representative administrative data from The Eviction Lab at Princeton University, we estimated the effects of the ACA Medicaid expansions on county-level evictions and filings from 2000 to 2016 with a difference-in-difference regression design. We found that Medicaid expansions were associated with an annual reduction in the rate of evictions by 1.15 per 1000 renter-occupied households (  
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2019.305230