Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Demography. 2021 Jun 1;58(3):975-985. doi: 10.1215/00703370-9099310.
The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program granted work authorization and protection from deportation to more than 800,000 young undocumented immigrants who arrived to the United States as minors. We estimate the association between this expansion of legal rights and birth outcomes among 72,613 singleton births to high school-educated Mexican immigrant women in the United States from June 2010 to May 2014, using birth records data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Exploiting the arbitrariness of the upper age cutoff for DACA eligibility and using a difference-in-differences design, we find that DACA was associated with improvements in the rates of low birth weight and very low birth weight, birth weight in grams, and gestational age among Mexican immigrant mothers.
2012 年的童年入境暂缓遣返（DACA）计划授予 80 多万名未成年无证移民工作许可和免受驱逐出境的保护，这些移民未成年时抵达美国。我们利用美国国家卫生统计中心的出生记录数据，估计了这项法律权利扩大与 2010 年 6 月至 2014 年 5 月期间在美国接受高中教育的墨西哥移民妇女所生的 72613 名单胎出生的出生结果之间的关系。我们利用 DACA 资格的最高年龄截止日期的任意性，并采用差异中的差异设计，发现 DACA 与墨西哥移民母亲的低出生体重和极低出生体重、出生体重（克）和胎龄的发生率提高有关。
