Medicaid Coverage and Prenatal Care Use among Immigrant Mothers

Difference in prenatal care utilization rate between immigrant
and US-born mothers, relative to year before Medicaid expansion

The graph is an event-study figure titled "Medicaid Coverage and Prenatal Care Use among Immigrant Mothers." The chart plots estimates of the difference in the prenatal care utilization rate between immigrant and US-born mothers, relative to the year before the Medicaid expansion, when prenatal coverage was expanded to undocumented immigrants. The y-axis ranges from -0.4 to 2.4 percentage points, and the x-axis ranges from four years before to five years after the expansion. In the year of the expansion, the utilization rate difference is 0.5 percentage points, and the difference increases to 2.3 percentage points five years after the expansion. Source: Researchers' calculations using data from the US Census Bureau and California birth records

The horizontal axis represents years relative to Medicaid expansion. The shaded region is the 95% confidence interval.

Source: Researchers' calculations using data from the US Census Bureau and California birth records