Uncertainty About DACA May Undermine Its Positive Impact On Health For Recipients And Their Children
Uncertainty About DACA May Undermine Its Positive Impact On Health For Recipients And Their Children
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DOI：
10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05495
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发表时间：
2019-05-01
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影响因子：
9.7
通讯作者：
Savinar, Robin
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作者：
Patler, Caitlin;Hamilton, Erin;Savinar, Robin
无证移民及其子女的自我报告健康状况比有证移民和美国公民更差。证据表明，童年抵港者暂缓遣返行动（DACA）计划，这是在2012年由总统巴拉克奥巴马，并授予一些权利，以无证移民谁抵达儿童，改善受助人的福祉和他们的孩子在该计划推出后的头三年.然而，DACA受到行政自由裁量权的约束，而2015年开始的美国总统竞选活动对该计划的未来带来了巨大的不确定性。我们研究了DACA的健康益处是否持续到2015年之后，使用加州健康访谈调查和动态治疗效果模型的2007-17波。我们的研究结果显示，自报健康改善拉丁/o DACA合格移民及其子女从2012年至2015年，但恶化后2015年。我们的研究结果表明，2016年总统大选的政治气候可能已经强调了DACA计划的政治偶然性，并侵蚀了该计划对合格移民及其子女的健康福利。
Undocumented immigrants and their children have worse self-reported health than documented immigrants and US citizens do. Evidence suggests that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which was created in 2012 by President Barack Obama and which granted some rights to undocumented immigrants who arrived as children, improved the well-being of recipients and their children in the first three years after the program's introduction. However, DACA is subject to executive discretion, and the US presidential campaign that began in 2015 introduced substantial uncertainty regarding the program's future. We examined whether DACA's health benefits persisted beyond 2015 using the 2007-17 waves of the California Health Interview Survey and dynamic treatment effects models. Our results show that self-reported health improved for Latina/o DACA-eligible immigrants and their children from 2012 to 2015 but worsened after 2015. Our results suggest that the political climate of the 2016 presidential election may have underscored the politically contingent nature of the DACA program and eroded the program's health benefits for eligible immigrants and their children.