Immigrant women and Medicaid-financed births
<b>Background</b>: While immigrants' propensity to use social programs has been extensively examined by researchers, whether immigrant women are more likely to use Medicaid for birth delivery than US-born women is understudied, and discussion on fiscal costs of immigration should in...
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| description | <b>Background</b>: While immigrants' propensity to use social programs has been extensively examined by researchers, whether immigrant women are more likely to use Medicaid for birth delivery than US-born women is understudied, and discussion on fiscal costs of immigration should include Medicaid-financed births among immigrants. <b>Objective</b>: This study documents Medicaid-financed births by dividing the sample based on age, education levels, and marital status and calculating the extent of Medicaid-financed births for each sociodemographic group, paying special attention to the difference between US-born women and immigrant women. <b>Methods</b>: Cross-sectional data on 11,451,478 women come from the 2014-2016 Natality Detail dataset compiled by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). <b>Results</b>: Overall, immigrant women are more likely than US-born women to report using Medicaid for birth delivery. However, among unmarried high school dropouts, married teenage high school dropouts, and unmarried teenage high school graduates, US-born women are more likely to use Medicaid for birth delivery than their immigrant counterparts. <b>Conclusions</b>: Considerable heterogeneity in the likelihood of Medicaid-financed births by age, education, and marital status highlights the importance of not bundling all immigrant women together to better identify subgroups with higher Medicaid-financed births. <b>Contribution</b>: This paper extends the literature on fiscal costs of immigration in the United States by focusing on Medicaid, which is an important source of financing for births for low-income women and families. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d0eb51eac2a24b52951fa9092c8554bc2022-12-22T01:22:08ZengMax Planck Institute for Demographic ResearchDemographic Research1435-98712018-10-01393110.4054/DemRes.2018.39.314118Immigrant women and Medicaid-financed birthsMasanori Kuroki0Arkansas Tech University<b>Background</b>: While immigrants' propensity to use social programs has been extensively examined by researchers, whether immigrant women are more likely to use Medicaid for birth delivery than US-born women is understudied, and discussion on fiscal costs of immigration should include Medicaid-financed births among immigrants. <b>Objective</b>: This study documents Medicaid-financed births by dividing the sample based on age, education levels, and marital status and calculating the extent of Medicaid-financed births for each sociodemographic group, paying special attention to the difference between US-born women and immigrant women. <b>Methods</b>: Cross-sectional data on 11,451,478 women come from the 2014-2016 Natality Detail dataset compiled by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). <b>Results</b>: Overall, immigrant women are more likely than US-born women to report using Medicaid for birth delivery. However, among unmarried high school dropouts, married teenage high school dropouts, and unmarried teenage high school graduates, US-born women are more likely to use Medicaid for birth delivery than their immigrant counterparts. <b>Conclusions</b>: Considerable heterogeneity in the likelihood of Medicaid-financed births by age, education, and marital status highlights the importance of not bundling all immigrant women together to better identify subgroups with higher Medicaid-financed births. <b>Contribution</b>: This paper extends the literature on fiscal costs of immigration in the United States by focusing on Medicaid, which is an important source of financing for births for low-income women and families.https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol39/31/birthsimmigrantsmedicare |
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| title | Immigrant women and Medicaid-financed births |
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| title_short | Immigrant women and Medicaid-financed births |
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