Table 3.

Probit Estimates of the Marginal Effect on Probability of Remaining Uninsured for Medicaid Eligible Citizen Children, 2008–2010

	Marginal Effect	Std. Err.
Immigrant Family	0.022	0.0035	***
Naturalized Citizen	0.015	0.0054	***
Hispanic	−0.002	0.0018
American Indian	0.053	0.0045	***
Black	−0.017	0.0016	***
Asian	−0.017	0.0028	***
Other Race	0.002	0.0021
Age 3–5	0.014	0.0014	***
Age 6–8	0.021	0.0016	***
Age 9–11	0.029	0.0017	***
Age 12–15	0.045	0.0017	***
Age 16–17	0.077	0.0023	***
Male	−0.001	0.0008
Poverty Level
0 – 100 Pct of Poverty	0.029	0.0023	***
101 – 200 Pct of Poverty	0.032	0.0020	***
Household (HH) with:
No high school grads	0.025	0.0021	***
Zero workers in HH	−0.034	0.0020	***
One worker in HH	−0.009	0.0014	***
Child with
Neither parent in HH	0.028	0.0044	***
Only father in HH	0.025	0.0023	***
Only mother in HH	−0.014	0.0015	***
Year = 2009	−0.024	0.0014	***
Year = 2010	−0.033	0.0014	***
Immigrant Family*State Interactions:
AL*Immigrant Family	0.028	0.0209
AK*Immigrant Family	−0.044	0.0315
AZ*Immigrant Family	0.010	0.0084
AR*Immigrant Family	0.006	0.0205
CO*Immigrant Family	0.036	0.0128	***
CT*Immigrant Family	0.049	0.0199	**
DE*Immigrant Family	0.021	0.0420
DC*Immigrant Family	0.004	0.0399
FL*Immigrant Family	0.025	0.0065	***
GA*Immigrant Family	0.058	0.0105	***
HI*Immigrant Family	−0.021	0.0205
ID*Immigrant Family	0.038	0.0246
IL*Immigrant Family	−0.010	0.0081
IN*Immigrant Family	0.010	0.0129
IA*Immigrant Family	−0.010	0.0204
KS*Immigrant Family	−0.006	0.0153
KY*Immigrant Family	0.005	0.0206
LA*Immigrant Family	0.003	0.0218
ME*Immigrant Family	−0.045	0.0255	*
MD*Immigrant Family	0.004	0.0114
MA*Immigrant Family	−0.018	0.0118
MI*Immigrant Family	0.008	0.0152
MN*Immigrant Family	0.017	0.0165
MS*Immigrant Family	0.112	0.0443	**
MO*Immigrant Family	0.021	0.0160
MT*Immigrant Family	0.006	0.0433
NE*Immigrant Family	0.057	0.0320	*
NV*Immigrant Family	0.025	0.0130	*
NH*Immigrant Family	0.059	0.0495
NJ*Immigrant Family	0.021	0.0089	**
NM*Immigrant Family	0.009	0.0159
NY*Immigrant Family	−0.013	0.0053	**
NC*Immigrant Family	0.017	0.0102	*
ND*Immigrant Family	−0.032	0.0542
OH*Immigrant Family	0.048	0.0183	***
OK*Immigrant Family	−0.002	0.0146
OR*Immigrant Family	−0.011	0.0111
PA*Immigrant Family	0.005	0.0115
RI*Immigrant Family	−0.013	0.0202
SC*Immigrant Family	0.033	0.0187	*
SD*Immigrant Family	−0.023	0.0426
TN*Immigrant Family	0.040	0.0164	**
TX*Immigrant Family	0.013	0.0050	**
UT*Immigrant Family	0.134	0.0236	***
VT*Immigrant Family	0.065	0.1311
VA*Immigrant Family	0.060	0.0170	***
WA*Immigrant Family	0.017	0.0106
WV*Immigrant Family	0.191	0.1198
WI*Immigrant Family	0.016	0.0185
WY*Immigrant Family	0.021	0.0818
State Fixed-effects:
AL	−0.018	0.0046	***
AK	0.010	0.0148
AZ	0.031	0.0064	***
AR	−0.037	0.0050	***
CO	0.039	0.0073	***
CT	−0.054	0.0048	***
DE	−0.026	0.0127	**
DC	−0.071	0.0062	***
FL	0.065	0.0052	***
GA	0.012	0.0046	**
HI	−0.048	0.0082	***
ID	0.017	0.0095	*
IL	−0.037	0.0039	***
IN	0.018	0.0053	***
IA	−0.037	0.0062	***
KS	0.010	0.0082
KY	−0.029	0.0047	***
LA	−0.021	0.0048	***
ME	−0.042	0.0080	***
MD	−0.037	0.0044	***
MA	−0.074	0.0026	***
MI	−0.043	0.0032	***
MN	−0.005	0.0058
MS	0.028	0.0075	***
MO	−0.015	0.0043	***
MT	0.055	0.0131	***
NE	−0.041	0.0064	***
NV	0.106	0.0124	***
NH	−0.031	0.0083	***
NJ	−0.027	0.0042	***
NM	−0.008	0.0071
NY	−0.041	0.0028	***
NC	−0.009	0.0043	**
ND	0.019	0.0206
OH	−0.013	0.0042	***
OK	0.000	0.0063
OR	0.026	0.0073	***
PA	−0.028	0.0034	***
RI	−0.033	0.0107	***
SC	0.030	0.0067	***
SD	−0.005	0.0140
TN	−0.033	0.0036	***
TX	0.053	0.0044	***
UT	0.014	0.0080	*
VT	−0.061	0.0073	***
VA	−0.012	0.0053	**
WA	−0.019	0.0046	***
WV	−0.042	0.0056	***
WI	−0.039	0.0045	***
WY	−0.013	0.0152
Number of Observations	861,116

Source: Authors’ estimates from the American Community Surveys (2008, 2009, 2010)

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