Intermarriage Amid Immigration Status Uncertainty : Evidence from Daca
In 2012, the Obama Administration issued the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by executive order. We examine how the temporary nature of DACA’s granted benefits and the uncertainty regarding the program’s fate after the Trump Administration announced its termination in 2017 might have shaped DACA-eligible migrants’ decision to marry a U.S. citizen –presumably to secure permanent residence amid an increasingly unclear policy environment. Using a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the discontinuity in DACA eligibility criteria cutoffs to construct akin treatment and control groups, we show that DACA-eligible immigrants became more likely than similar DACA-ineligible undocumented migrants to marry U.S. citizens after the program came under siege
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[2023]
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Authors: | Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina ; Wang, Chunbei |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
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