Table 1.
Descriptive Statistics
| Mean (SD) | |
|---|---|
| Dependent variables | |
| Public insurance* | 0.133 (0.340) |
| Private insurance* | 0.844 (0.362) |
| No insurance* | 0.072 (0.259) |
| Independent variables | |
| Individual and family characteristics | |
| Eligible for public insurance (imputed) | 0.394 (0.489) |
| Non-Hispanic white | 0.641 (0.480) |
| Non-Hispanic black | 0.129 (0.335) |
| Hispanic | 0.173 (0.378) |
| Other race | 0.057 (0.232) |
| Age 0–2 | 0.156 (0.363) |
| Age 3–5 | 0.162 (0.369) |
| Age 6–12 | 0.386 (0.487) |
| Age 13–18 | 0.296 (0.456) |
| Male | 0.512 (0.500) |
| Family with one child | 0.206 (0.404) |
| Family with two children | 0.424 (0.494) |
| Family with three children | 0.245 (0.430) |
| Family with four children | 0.088 (0.284) |
| Family with five or more children | 0.036 (0.187) |
| Reported health is good, fair, or poor | 0.155 (0.362) |
| Parent with highest level of education is college graduate | 0.380 (0.485) |
| Parent with highest level of education attended some college | 0.363 (0.481) |
| Parent with highest level of education is high school graduate or has GED | 0.221 (0.415) |
| Neither parent is high school graduate | 0.036 (0.186) |
| Foreign born, lived in U.S. ≤5 years | 0.010 (0.101) |
| Foreign born, lived in U.S. >5 years | 0.014 (0.118) |
| U.S. born with no U.S. born parent/grandparent | 0.112 (0.315) |
| U.S. born with at least one U.S. born parent/grandparent | 0.864 (0.343) |
| Urban location | 0.824 (0.381) |
| Two-parent family | 0.785 (0.411) |
| Family income 201–250% FPL | 0.303 (0.460) |
| Family income 251–300% FPL | 0.273 (0.446) |
| Family income 301–350% FPL | 0.227 (0.419) |
| Family income 351–400% FPL | 0.196 (0.397) |
| Either parent is FT public sector employee† | 0.216 (0.412) |
| Either parent is a FT private sector employee† | 0.688 (0.463) |
| Either parent is FT self-employed† | 0.043 (0.204) |
| Either parent works part-time† | 0.042 (0.200) |
| Neither parent is employed† | 0.010 (0.100) |
| Firm size < 10 for parent employed in private sector‡ | 0.059 (0.236) |
| Firm size 10–24 for parent employed in private sector | 0.051 (0.220) |
| Firm size 25–99 for parent employed in private sector | 0.101 (0.302) |
| Firm size 100–499 for parent employed in private sector | 0.114 (0.318) |
| Firm size 500–999 for parent employed in private sector | 0.049 (0.216) |
| Firm size 1000 + for parent employed in private sector | 0.314 (0.464) |
| Occupation = management, professional for parent employed in private sector‡ | 0.294 (0.456) |
| Occupation = production, transport for parent employed in private sector | 0.130 (0.336) |
| Occupation = sales & office for parent employed in private sector | 0.144 (0.351) |
| Occupation = construction & maintenance for parent employed in private sector | 0.069 (0.254) |
| Occupation = service for parent employed in private sector | 0.033 (0.180) |
| Occupation = farming, fishing, forestry for parent employed in private sector | 0.001 (0.035) |
| Occupation = unknown for parent employed in private sector | 0.015 (0.123) |
| State-level characteristics | |
| Percent unemployed | 0.093 (0.019) |
| Lagged percent unemployed | 0.054 (0.011) |
| Per capita income (in $100,000) | 0.268 (0.030) |
| Percent of children 0–5 in poverty | 0.219 (0.048) |
| Percent children 6–18 in poverty | 0.179 (0.036) |
| Rate of unionization | 0.122 (0.064) |
| Private insurance premium (in $10,000) | 0.402 (0.046) |
| Program characteristics | |
| Parental CHIP eligibility waiver | 0.177 (0.382) |
| Separate CHIP program | 0.856 (0.351) |
Notes. Descriptive statistics are for 18,514 children in the CPS with incomes between 200 and 400 percent of the FPL in the 2009 CPS. Full analytic data include 157,315 children. FT indicates full-time.
*
Sum across insurance categories (public, private, no insurance) exceeds 1 because individuals can report public and private insurance.
†
Parental employment categories are mutually exclusive and follow hierarchy in listed order.
‡
Variable means for firm size categories total percentage of families with a FT private sector employee; same for occupational categories.