Children’s health insurance coverage in the United States: The role of parents’ ethnicity and immigration status
This study explores whether parents’ decision to carry health insurance for their children varies by race/ethnicity or immigration status. The results indicate that when compared to the reference group of native-born white parents, foreign-born, Hispanic, and black parents were less likely to have p...
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| description | This study explores whether parents’ decision to carry health insurance for their
children varies by race/ethnicity or immigration status. The results indicate that when
compared to the reference group of native-born white parents, foreign-born, Hispanic, and
black parents were less likely to have private health insurance coverage and more likely to
have public health insurance coverage for their children. The likelihood of being uninsured
increased with lower educational attainment, poverty, and status as a single parent, and the
likelihood of having public health insurance coverage for children was positively
associated with living in poverty, being female, and household size. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-62c1a666f1894a29bffe43b7b79e1e012022-12-22T00:14:51ZengGeneral Association of Economists from RomaniaTheoretical and Applied Economics1841-86781844-00292016-06-01XXIII2414618418678Children’s health insurance coverage in the United States: The role of parents’ ethnicity and immigration statusSwarn CHATTERJEE0 University of Georgia, Athens, USA This study explores whether parents’ decision to carry health insurance for their children varies by race/ethnicity or immigration status. The results indicate that when compared to the reference group of native-born white parents, foreign-born, Hispanic, and black parents were less likely to have private health insurance coverage and more likely to have public health insurance coverage for their children. The likelihood of being uninsured increased with lower educational attainment, poverty, and status as a single parent, and the likelihood of having public health insurance coverage for children was positively associated with living in poverty, being female, and household size. http://store.ectap.ro/articole/1180.pdf Health InsuranceChildren’s HealthImmigrantsWealthRisk Management |
| spellingShingle | Swarn CHATTERJEE Children’s health insurance coverage in the United States: The role of parents’ ethnicity and immigration status Theoretical and Applied Economics Health Insurance Children’s Health Immigrants Wealth Risk Management |
| title | Children’s health insurance coverage in the United States: The role of parents’ ethnicity and immigration status |
| title_full | Children’s health insurance coverage in the United States: The role of parents’ ethnicity and immigration status |
| title_fullStr | Children’s health insurance coverage in the United States: The role of parents’ ethnicity and immigration status |
| title_full_unstemmed | Children’s health insurance coverage in the United States: The role of parents’ ethnicity and immigration status |
| title_short | Children’s health insurance coverage in the United States: The role of parents’ ethnicity and immigration status |
| title_sort | children s health insurance coverage in the united states the role of parents ethnicity and immigration status |
| topic | Health Insurance Children’s Health Immigrants Wealth Risk Management |
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