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Table 5 Language access, insurance coverage, and crowd-out: private insurance

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

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Income level cutoff

20,000

22,500

25,000

27,500

30,000

LA

− 0.0364***

− 0.0427***

− 0.0405***

− 0.0347***

− 0.0420***

 

(0.00919)

(0.00864)

(0.00829)

(0.00796)

(0.00772)

LEP

− 0.0502***

− 0.0569***

− 0.0640***

− 0.0648***

− 0.0678***

 

(0.00659)

(0.00621)

(0.00590)

(0.00565)

(0.00550)

LA*LEP

0.0338***

0.0381***

0.0395***

0.0357***

0.0363***

 

(0.00754)

(0.00711)

(0.00678)

(0.00650)

(0.00631)

Age

0.000522**

0.000612***

0.000798***

0.000972***

0.00115***

 

(0.000210)

(0.000199)

(0.000190)

(0.000182)

(0.000176)

Female

− 0.00492

− 0.00276

− 0.00295

− 0.00180

− 0.00316

 

(0.00360)

(0.00340)

(0.00325)

(0.00311)

(0.00301)

No. of ppl in hh

− 0.0235***

− 0.0259***

− 0.0254***

− 0.0263***

− 0.0268***

 

(0.00104)

(0.000972)

(0.000943)

(0.000905)

(0.000871)

Constant

0.311***

0.329***

0.358***

0.364***

0.388***

 

(0.0325)

(0.0309)

(0.0305)

(0.0293)

(0.0283)

Observations

58,169

68,991

78,894

89,937

99,724

R-squared

0.073

0.072

0.071

0.069

0.069

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