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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 6.
Published in final edited form as: Science. 2017 Aug 31;357(6355):1041–1044. doi: 10.1126/science.aan5893

Fig. 2. Effect of mothers’ DACA eligibility on their children’s mental health.

Fig. 2

(Left) Mothers’ DACA eligibility reduced child mental health disorders in the post-DACA period. (Right) There were no systematic, preexisting differences in the pre-DACA period. Circles with lines represent effect estimates with 95% confidence intervals from the regression discontinuity design, based on local linear regressions fitted to samples of children whose mothers’ birthdates were within a symmetric bandwidth of days around the DACA eligibility cutoff. The size of the bandwidth was determined by an adaptive bandwidth selection algorithm for each outcome. The bandwidths and sample sizes for the three outcomes in the post-DACA period (top to bottom) are ±199 days around the cutoff (n = 3039 children), ±180 days (n = 2741), and ±132 days (n = 2002); for the pre-DACA period (top to bottom), the bandwidths and sample sizes are ±108 days (n = 1325), ±109 days (n = 1338), and ±211 days (n = 2745).