Hi everyone,
I am researching how ethnic and racial disparities in health insurance coverage and health status changed as a result of the Affordable Care Act. My outcomes are two binary variables: insurance status (uninsured/insured) and health (positive health/not positive health). I am using a difference-in-difference framework within these linear probability models where I'm using years 2009 and 2014 and interactions between 2014 and the two minority groups. I have a combined sample of about 200,000 observations through the CDC's National Health Interview Survey.
havecoverage = postACAHispanic + postACAblack + Hispanic + black + postACA + female + agegroup* + USregion* goodhealth = postACAHispanic + postACAblack + Hispanic + black + postACA + female + agegroup* + USregion*
where the * represents k-1 levels of that variable (i.e. all U.S. regions except for one and all age groups except for one).
My goal is to compare Hispanics to non-Hispanic whites and non-Hispanic blacks to non-Hispanic whites so my question is whether or not I am supposed to include both dummies (i.e. that for black and that for Hispanics) in the same equation and also whether or not to restrict the sample by just these three categories (i.e. delete those that are of any other ethnicity or race).
I will also be including covariates like marital status and employment status in both equations so would I restrict the sample accordingly then (in these cases, have only 18+)?
Thanks in advance for your responses.
I am researching how ethnic and racial disparities in health insurance coverage and health status changed as a result of the Affordable Care Act. My outcomes are two binary variables: insurance status (uninsured/insured) and health (positive health/not positive health). I am using a difference-in-difference framework within these linear probability models where I'm using years 2009 and 2014 and interactions between 2014 and the two minority groups. I have a combined sample of about 200,000 observations through the CDC's National Health Interview Survey.
havecoverage = postACAHispanic + postACAblack + Hispanic + black + postACA + female + agegroup* + USregion* goodhealth = postACAHispanic + postACAblack + Hispanic + black + postACA + female + agegroup* + USregion*
where the * represents k-1 levels of that variable (i.e. all U.S. regions except for one and all age groups except for one).
My goal is to compare Hispanics to non-Hispanic whites and non-Hispanic blacks to non-Hispanic whites so my question is whether or not I am supposed to include both dummies (i.e. that for black and that for Hispanics) in the same equation and also whether or not to restrict the sample by just these three categories (i.e. delete those that are of any other ethnicity or race).
I will also be including covariates like marital status and employment status in both equations so would I restrict the sample accordingly then (in these cases, have only 18+)?
Thanks in advance for your responses.
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