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
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Pabst, Jessica
(2016)
"2014 Welfare Use by Immigrants vs. Natives in the United States,"
Major Themes in Economics, 18, 19-33.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/mtie/vol18/iss1/4