DACA's Association With Birth Outcomes Among Mexican-Origin Mothers in the United States
| Autor: | Paola D. Langer, Caitlin Patler, Erin R. Hamilton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Birth weight Immigration Emigrants and Immigrants Mothers 03 medical and health sciences Deportation 0302 clinical medicine 0502 economics and business medicine Humans Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals 030212 general & internal medicine 050207 economics Child Association (psychology) Demography media_common Singleton Undocumented Immigrants 05 social sciences Gestational age United States Low birth weight Female medicine.symptom Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Demography. 58:975-985 |
| ISSN: | 1533-7790 0070-3370 |
| Popis: | The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program granted work authorization and protection from deportation to more than 800,000 young undocumented immigrants who arrived to the United States as minors. We estimate the association between this expansion of legal rights and birth outcomes among 72,613 singleton births to high school–educated Mexican immigrant women in the United States from June 2010 to May 2014, using birth records data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Exploiting the arbitrariness of the upper age cutoff for DACA eligibility and using a difference-in-differences design, we find that DACA was associated with improvements in the rates of low birth weight and very low birth weight, birth weight in grams, and gestational age among Mexican immigrant mothers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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