PhD Candidate, Economics
I am Sam Stripling, and I am a PhD candidate in the Economics Department at The University of Texas at Austin. I study public economics, labor economics, and health economics. My recent research uses restricted Census data to examine the effects of public health insurance on near-elderly mortality. My current research topics are featured below. You can find a copy of my CV here.
This paper shows that an expansion of public health insurance to children from low-income families reduced the probability of those children going to prison as adults.
My dissertation, summarized in this job market paper, aims to improve our understanding and existing estimates of the effects of public health insurance on near-elderly mortality. Using restricted Census and NVSS data, I examine the effects of Medicare eligibility at age 65 and ACA Medicaid eligibility on near-elderly mortality.
Using hospital financial report data from CMS, I find no evidence that hospitals increased bed capacity, capital expenditures, or full-time staff in response to the ACA Medicaid Expansion.