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Department of Economics, Swarthmore College
June 2014

Public Insurance Expansions and the Health of Immigrant and Native Childre
By Erin Todd Bronchett


Extending the INS data in Watson (forthcoming) through 2009 is not possible because of a sub- stantial change in recording of enforcement in 2003. Instead, I construct the enforcement variable for 1998-2009 using data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) Immi- gration Reports. I calculate the number of deportations per 1,000 foreign-born in each of the 25 INS clusters from 1998 through 2009. I also computed the number of immigration court cases per 1,000 foreign-born, but that variable had less predictive power. I use the American National Election Study (ANES) to capture state-year variation in negative attitudes towards immigration.....[Citing TRAC research].


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