Protecting unauthorized immigrant mothers improves their children's mental health

The United States is embroiled in a debate about whether to protect or deport its estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants, but the fact that these immigrants are also parents to more than 4 million U.S.-born children is often overlooked. We provide causal evidence of the impact of parents'...

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Published in:	Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 357; no. 6355; p. 1041
Main Authors:	Hainmueller, Jens, Lawrence, Duncan, Martén, Linna, Black, Bernard, Figueroa, Lucila, Hotard, Michael, Jiménez, Tomás R, Mendoza, Fernando, Rodriguez, Maria I, Swartz, Jonas J, Laitin, David D
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 08.09.2017
Subjects:	Child Child Health - statistics & numerical data Female Humans Male Medicaid Mental Disorders - therapy Mental Health - statistics & numerical data Mothers - statistics & numerical data Treatment Outcome Undocumented Immigrants - statistics & numerical data United States
ISSN:	1095-9203, 1095-9203
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