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Supplemental Material for “A Re-Examination of the Impact of Welfare Reform on Health Insurance Among Less-Skilled Women” John Ham, Xianghong Li, and Lara Shore-Sheppard Table of Means Means by marital status and the presence or absence of children for each of these variables are presented in Table A1. The four groups are quite similar in terms of most of the policy variables, indicating little systematic difference between groups in their states of residence (and the time periods observed). One clear difference is in the value of the maximum EITC, which is larger for women with children. Interestingly, the sample of single mothers has a somewhat lower likelihood of having a parental Medicaid expansion in their state. In terms of demographics, the married women samples tend to be older than the unmarried women samples, unmarried women (especially mothers) tend to be more likely to be black, and the two groups of mothers tend to have a greater proportion Hispanic than the two groups of non-mothers.Trends in Empirical Transition Rates Trends in the empirical transition rates are presented in Figures A1-A2. It appears that the rates of both coverage loss and coverage gain increased after 1990 for all four groups, although the estimated rates are quite noisy. (As transition rates are much lower than coverage levels, these two figures are plotted on different scales than Figures 1-3.) The fact that both insurance entry and exit rates increased suggests that the stability of insurance relationships declined over this period. This increase in insurance churning has also been observed for children (see Ham, Li, and Shore-Sheppard 2006), although for children the increased churning was not accompanied by significant overall coverage loss. Figure A1  Figure A2 Calculation of the Medium-Run Effects of Welfare Reform Implementation To see how permanent changes today in an independent variable have additional effects due to the presence of the lagged dependent