Impact of state children’s health insurance program on fertility of immigrant women

Between 1997 and 2000, all states in the United States (US) enacted State Children’s Health Insurance Programme (SCHIP) to provide publicly funded health insurance coverage for children low-income families. However, only 15 including District of Columbia initially chose newly arrived immigrants their SCHIP. We exploit resulting state time variation implementation programme a difference-in-differences framework estimate effect children’s benefit on immigrant women’s fertility. While estimates from full samples show that net effect was indistinguishable zero, we find significant positive fertility unmarried women, both at extensive intensive margin. Our findings have important policy implications societies experiencing persistent decline