We develop a dynamic politico-economic theory of welfare state and immigration policies, featuring three groups of …

which the social security system influences the young decisive voter's attitudes in favor of a more liberal immigration …

exploit changes in deportation fear due to the roll-out and intensity of Secure Communities (SC), an immigration enforcement … program that empowers the federal government to check the immigration status of anyone arrested by local police, leading to … participation could expose non-citizens in their network to immigration authorities. We find significant declines in SNAP and ACA …

One of the economic benefits of immigration is that the diversity of the population is enhanced. Diversity, it is … diversity mean? Do current immigration policies enhance diversity? To the extent that there are gains from diversity, they come … cannot be the justification of U.S. immigration policy. Indeed, current immigration policy fails to promote diversity …