DACA's Association With Birth Outcomes Among Mexican-Origin Mothers in the United States
DACA's Association With Birth Outcomes Among Mexican-Origin Mothers in the United States
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DOI：
10.1215/00703370-9099310
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发表时间：
2021-06-01
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Patler, Caitlin
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作者：
Hamilton, Erin R.;Langer, Paola D.;Patler, Caitlin
2012年的童年抵美者暂缓遣返行动（DACA）计划为80多万未成年人抵达美国的年轻无证移民提供了工作许可和保护。我们使用美国国家卫生统计中心的出生记录数据，估计了2010年6月至2014年5月期间美国72,613名受过高中教育的墨西哥移民妇女的单胎分娩中法律的权利的扩大与出生结果之间的关联。利用DACA资格上限年龄截止的任意性并使用差异设计，我们发现DACA与墨西哥移民母亲中低出生体重和极低出生体重，出生体重（克）和胎龄的改善有关。
The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program granted work authorization and protection from deportation to more than 800.000 young undocumented immigrants who arrived to the United States as minors. We estimate the association between this expansion of legal rights and birth outcomes among 72,613 singleton births to high school-educated Mexican immigrant women in the United States from June 2010 to May 2014, using birth records data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Exploiting the arbitrariness of the upper age cutoff for DACA eligibility and using a difference-in-differences design, we find that DACA was associated with improvements in the rates of low birth weight and very low birth weight, birth weight in grams, and gestational age among Mexican immigrant mothers.