attention by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to the incarceration of the foreign born. By 1996, the definition of …

The perception that immigration adversely affects crime rates led to legislation in the 1990s that particularly …

The U.S. population is aging. We examine whether immigration causally affects the likelihood that the U.S.-born elderly … live in institutional settings. Using a shift-share instrument to identify exogenous variation in immigration, we find that … percent) less likely to be living in an institution than would have been the case if immigration had remained at 1980 levels …

employment and childhood overweight. To accomplish this, we mainly utilize matched mother/child data from the National … estimates to the trend towards greater maternal employment indicates that the increased hours worked per week among mothers …