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Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures : How are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime?

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2010

affect total expenditures in households headed by low-educated single mothers. However, patterns of expenditure did change … significant changes in expenditures on childcare or learning and enrichment activities. This pattern of results suggests that … welfare reform has shifted family expenditures towards items that facilitate work outside the home, but, at least so far, has …

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International Student Mobility : Growth and Dispersion

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2019

mobility – the human capital model and the migration model – across traditional and emerging destinations. Our findings suggest … that while the predictions of the migration model are generally valid in explaining student emigration to non …

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What Determines Immigration's Impact? Comparing Two Global Centuries

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2006

paper examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so …

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Health and Mental Health Effects of Local Immigration Enforcement

Wang, Julia Shu-Huah - 2018

We study the effect of two local immigration enforcement policies – Section 287(g) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act and the Secure Communities Program (SC) – that have escalated fear and risk of deportation among the undocumented on the health and mental...

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Where Do U.S. Immigrants Come from, and Why?

Clark, Ximena; Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

The United States has experienced rising immigration levels and changing source since the 1950s. The changes in source have been attributed to the 1965 Amendments to the Immigration Act that abolished country-quotas and replaced them with a system that emphasized family reunification. Some...

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Do Food Stamps Cause Obesity? Evidence from Immigrant Experience

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2014

I use changes in immigrant eligibility for food stamps under the 1996 federal law and heterogeneous state responses to set up a natural experiment research design to study the effect of food stamps on Body Mass Index (BMI) of adults in immigrant families. I find that in the post-1996 period food...

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Poverty Traps, Distance, and Diversity : The Migration Connection

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2014

Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper … documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950 …

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The current...

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Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform

Kaestner, Robert; Kaushal, Neeraj - 2001

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates of three groups of low-educated women: foreign-born citizens, foreign-born non-citizens and native-born citizens. Among non-citizens, we investigate whether the behavioral...

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Land, Labor and the Wage-Rental Ratio : Factor Price Convergence in the Late Nineteenth Century

O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Taylor, Alan M.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021

convergence. These include: commodity price convergence and the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem of factor price equalization; migration …

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