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Acculturation and Health Insurance of M exicans in the USA
Author(s) -
Kaushal Neeraj,
Kaestner Robert
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
review of international economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.513
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1467-9396
pISSN - 0965-7576
DOI - 10.1111/roie.12033
Subject(s) - immigration , health insurance , demographic economics , acculturation , economics , arrival time , demography , geography , health care , sociology , economic growth , archaeology , transport engineering , engineering
We study how the health insurance coverage of M exican immigrants changes with time in the USA . Cross‐sectional estimates indicate that time since arrival is negatively correlated with the probability of being uninsured for both male and female M exican immigrants, and about a third of the decline could be attributed to civic and labor market incorporation of M exican immigrants. However, much of the relationship between time in the USA and health insurance coverage, after adjusting for demographic and labor market factors, is due to failure to control for age at arrival and period of arrival. Estimates from longitudinal analyses suggest that there is no systematic relationship between time in the USA and health insurance of M exican immigrants, although imprecision in the fixed effects estimates makes it difficult to draw firm conclusions.