State-Level Immigrant Policy Climates and Health Care Among U.S. Children of Immigrants

Molly Dondero () and Claire E. Altman
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Molly Dondero: American University
Claire E. Altman: University of Missouri

Population Research and Policy Review, 2022, vol. 41, issue 6, No 13, 2683-2708

Abstract: Abstract Using a sample of 29,515 children from Wave 1 of the 2014 and 2018 Survey of Income and Program Participation, we examine the association between state-level immigrant policy climates and two dimensions of health care among children of immigrants: health insurance coverage and health provider visits. We find a negative association between state immigrant policy restrictiveness and health care use among first-generation children (i.e. those born outside the U.S.); state policy restrictiveness is associated with lower probabilities of health insurance and health provider visits for this group of children. The gaps between the first and third-generation in both outcomes increase linearly as policy restrictiveness increases, suggesting that such policies exacerbate disparities between first and third-generation children. We find no evidence of a significant association between state policy climate restrictiveness and the health care of second-generation children (i.e. those born in the U.S. with a foreign-born parent). Although there are disparities between second and third-generation children for these outcomes, there are no significant differences in the association between state policy restrictiveness and health insurance or health provider visits.

Keywords: Children of immigrants; Health care; Immigration policy; Health disparities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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