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Document Type

Article

Abstract

Welfare use by immigrants has been a political issue since the inception of the United States. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was intended to cut immigrant welfare use. Since 1996, various studies have found conflicting evidence of the 1996 welfare reform’s effectiveness when comparing immigrant welfare use to native use. This paper analyzes the individual use of Medicaid, a proxy for welfare, in 2014, by immigrants versus natives in the United States. The study, using a logit model, shows that in 2014 the probability of participating in Medicaid was lower for immigrants than natives.

Publication Date

Spring 2016

Journal Title

Major Themes in Economics

Volume

18

Issue

1

First Page

19

Last Page

33

Copyright

©2016 by Major Themes in Economics

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Included in

Economics Commons

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