Cancer Mortality Estimates After Medicaid Expansion by Stage, Income, and Treatment

Difference-in-differences estimates of cancer-specific mortality following Medicaid expansion, stratified by disease stage, household income, and treatment. The dataset is a 5.5 KB Excel file authored by Oluwasegun Akinyemi and last updated on April 9, 2026. It is licensed under CC-BY-4.0 and hosted on figshare.

Use Cases

• Estimate the effect of Medicaid expansion on cancer mortality based on the difference-in-differences methodology described.
• Analyze disparities in cancer outcomes by household income as indicated in the dataset description.
• Compare mortality impacts across different cancer disease stages as referenced in the title.
• Investigate the relationship between treatment access and mortality following policy changes.

Strengths

• Dataset is small (5.5 KB), facilitating quick download and inspection.
• Clear focus on a specific policy evaluation using a difference-in-differences design.
• Openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0, permitting reuse and redistribution.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Oluwasegun Akinyemi.

Collection Method

Likely contains statistical estimates derived from administrative or survey data.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 17:39:09; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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