The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and birth outcomes in California: a quasi-experimental study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program provides temporary relief from deportation and work permits for previously undocumented immigrants who arrived as children. DACA faced direct threats under the Trump administration. There is select evidence of the short-term impacts of DACA on population health, including on birth outcomes, but limited understanding of the long-term impacts.

Methods

We evaluated the association between DACA program and birth outcomes using California birth certificate data (2009-2018) and a difference-in-differences approach to compare post-DACA birth outcomes for likely DACA-eligible mothers to birth outcomes for demographically similar DACA-ineligible mothers. We also separately compared birth outcomes by DACA eligibility

SUBMITTER: Torres JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9338458 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature