Brief Report: State Policy Contexts and Disability Risks Among Midlife Working-Age Latino Adults in the U.S.: Variation by Nativity and Citizenship Status.

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Population Research and Policy Review Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-23 DOI:10.1007/s11113-026-10022-6

Marc A Garcia, Blakelee R Kemp, Catherine García, Courtney E Boen, Rogelio Sáenz

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Disability risks among midlife Latino adults in the United States are strongly patterned along axes of stratification such as nativity and citizenship status. Another increasingly salient axis of inequality in disability risk is geographic context, such as U.S. state political environments. While prior research highlights the importance of specific state policies, such as Medicaid, in shaping health-related outcomes, few studies have examined how broader policy contexts and ideologies, such as policy liberalism, influence disability risk, particularly among Latino adults. This study combines data from the 2008-2019 American Community Survey (ACS) with state-level measures of overall, economic, and social policy liberalism to examine how these dimensions of policy context influence disability risks among a diverse sample of midlife working-age Latino adults ([Formula: see text] = 1,103,993). Using logistic regression models, we evaluate the associations between state policy liberalism (overall, economic, and social domains) and disability and assess differences by nativity and citizenship status. Results indicate that greater overall and economic policy liberalism were associated with lower probabilities of disability among midlife Latino adults. The magnitude of this association varied by nativity and citizenship, with U.S.-born Latino adults experiencing greater declines in disability across more liberal policy contexts compared to foreign-born Latino adults. Additionally, compared to the naturalized and non-citizens, citizens experienced greater declines in disability across more liberal policy contexts. These results suggest that state policy contexts that promote and protect social and economic supports, such as improving access to labor protections, can reduce the burden of disability, particularly among U.S.-born and citizen Latino adults.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11113-026-10022-6.

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简要报告：国家政策背景和美国中年工作年龄拉丁裔成年人的残疾风险：出生和公民身份的变化。

在美国，拉丁裔中年成年人的残疾风险在很大程度上是按照出生和公民身份等分层轴来划分的。另一个日益突出的残疾风险不平等轴是地理环境，比如美国各州的政治环境。虽然先前的研究强调了具体的国家政策（如医疗补助计划）在塑造健康相关结果方面的重要性，但很少有研究考察了更广泛的政策背景和意识形态（如政策自由主义）如何影响残疾风险，特别是在拉丁裔成年人中。本研究将2008-2019年美国社区调查（ACS）的数据与国家层面的总体、经济和社会政策自由主义指标结合起来，研究政策背景的这些维度如何影响不同样本的中年工作年龄拉丁裔成年人的残疾风险（[计算式：见文本]= 1,103,993）。使用逻辑回归模型，我们评估了国家政策自由主义（总体、经济和社会领域）与残疾之间的联系，并评估了出生地和公民身份的差异。结果表明，在拉丁美洲中年成年人中，更大的整体和经济政策自由主义与较低的残疾概率有关。这种关联的程度因出生地和国籍而异，在更自由的政策背景下，与在外国出生的拉丁裔成年人相比，在美国出生的拉丁裔成年人的残疾程度下降幅度更大。此外，与入籍和非公民相比，在更自由的政策背景下，公民的残疾程度下降幅度更大。这些结果表明，促进和保护社会和经济支持的国家政策背景，例如改善获得劳动保护的机会，可以减轻残疾负担，特别是在美国出生和公民的拉丁裔成年人中。补充资料：在线版本提供补充资料，网址为10.1007/s11113-026-10022-6。

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