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Table 3 Language access and Medicaid take-up rates

From: Word to the mother(tongue): language access and Medicaid for Limited English Proficient migrants

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Income level cutoff

25,000

20,000

22,500

27,500

30,000

LA

− 0.0209**

− 0.0264***

− 0.0176*

− 0.0234***

− 0.0208***

 

(0.00860)

(0.0102)

(0.00933)

(0.00793)

(0.00749)

LEP

0.0138**

0.00362

0.0108

0.0164***

0.0200***

 

(0.00662)

(0.00777)

(0.00713)

(0.00617)

(0.00585)

LA*LEP

0.0182**

0.0250***

0.0195**

0.0121*

0.00994

 

(0.00742)

(0.00869)

(0.00798)

(0.00692)

(0.00654)

Age

− 2.37e −06

0.000415*

0.000191

− 0.000275

− 0.000364**

 

(0.000195)

(0.000229)

(0.000210)

(0.000182)

(0.000172)

Female

0.0554***

0.0603***

0.0582***

0.0545***

0.0530***

 

(0.00353)

(0.00417)

(0.00381)

(0.00328)

(0.00310)

No. of ppl in hh

0.0250***

0.0236***

0.0243***

0.0241***

0.0239***

 

(0.00113)

(0.00134)

(0.00122)

(0.00106)

(0.000997)

Constant

0.288***

0.326***

0.305***

0.300***

0.289***

 

(0.0300)

(0.0340)

(0.0319)

(0.0290)

(0.0276)

Observations

78,894

58,169

68,991

89,937

99,724

R-squared

0.189

0.197

0.192

0.184

0.181

  1. Notes: Robust standard errors are in parentheses
  2. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1