The impact of access to prenatal health insurance for noncitizen women on child health.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the effects of prenatal public health insurance targeting noncitizens on the health of U.S.-born children of noncitizen mothers beyond birth outcomes.

Data sources and study setting

This paper uses the restricted version of the 1998-2014 National Health Interview Survey with state-level geographic identifiers.

Study design

The empirical strategy compares outcomes in states that adopted the Children's Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) Unborn Child Option with states that never adopted or adopted it at different times, controlling for differences in the pre-treatment period. I use a flexible event-study analysis to quantify the effects of the Unborn Child Option on noncitizen women's health insurance coverage, health care utilization, and their children

SUBMITTER: Hwang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10480078 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature