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Title: Immigrant Success and Wealth Tests: Consequences of the Department of Homeland Security’s 2019 Public Charge Rule

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Publication Year: 2022

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Abstract: The 2019 public charge rule published by the Trump administration has left substantial impacts on public safety net participation for immigrant families. Utilizing data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), I examine the effects of the the updated public charge rule (UPCR) on public safety net participation on citizen children with non-citizen mothers (treatment group), using citizen children with citizen mothers as a control group. I employ a difference-in-differences model to explore the before and after effects of the rule to look at participation rates in Medicaid, SNAP, and lunch subsidies. I find statistically significant results showing that the odds of SNAP participation is approximately 27% lower for the treatment group in comparison with the control group during the years that the UPCR is in effect. Interestingly, I did not find significant results on the effect of the UPCR on Medicaid and lunch subsidy participation. The UPCR exacerbated food insecurity among children living in immigrant households in a time when immigrants were already facing economic hardship as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Url: https://www.sas.rochester.edu/eco/undergraduate/papers/fhaque_seniorthesis.pdf

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Authors: Haque, Fariha

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Topics: Migration and Immigration, Poverty and Welfare

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