Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126262 
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Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 15-234
Publisher: 
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI
Abstract: 
Conventional labor supply studies assume constant eligibility monitoring of income-tested program participants, but this is not true for most programs. For example, states can allow children to enroll in Medicaid/CHIP for 12 months regardless of family income changes. A long recertification period reduces monitoring costs but is predicted to induce program participation by temporary income adjustments. However, I find little evidence of strategic behavior from the 2001 and 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation. Given the lack of dynamic responses, I propose a framework to compute the optimal recertification period and find 12 months to be its lower bound.
Subjects: 
Labor Supply
Medicaid
CHIP
Continuous Eligibility
Recertification
JEL: 
I38
J20
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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