Medicaid is one of the most costly welfare programs available to immigrants. This paper uses data from the 1989 to 1992 … and on the utilization of medical services among children of natives and children of immigrants. Children of immigrants … of immigrants, although coverage rose among children of the native born. Among immigrants in border states, eligibility …

housing behavior of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Using an event-study approach and difference-in-differences (DID …) estimates, we compared immigrants above and below eligibility cutoffs and demonstrated that, after the adoption of the policy in … June 2012, DACA-eligible immigrants were less likely to live with their parents or in multigenerational households (-12 …

We examine the effect of language acquisition on the growth of immigrants' earnings. We gathered data on recent Soviet … immigrants to Israel that include retrospective questions on earnings and language ability on entry into their current job …. This finding may invite a reinterpretation of other studies on the returns to language acquisition for low wage immigrants …

with past evidence on language-skill complementarity. Natives and immigrants with high levels of education benefit …We use a unique sample of Russian immigrants and natives in Israel to examine the return to English knowledge. In cross …-section estimates there is a significant return to English knowledge for both immigrants and natives with high levels of education …

This paper finds that immigrants on average earned about $0.50/hour less than native-born Americans in 1989. Immigrants … finds that when immigrants first arrive in the U.S. they earn significantly less than native workers, but they close the gap … arrived in the 1950s and 1960s eventually surpassed the average native wage. Improvements in English language skills …

language acquisition and refugee incorporation, which typically rely on self-reported measures of fluency. Our findings are …

Immigrants in economies with a dominant native language exhibit substantial heterogeneities in language acquisition of … the majority language. We model partial equilibrium language acquisition as an equilibrium phenomenon. We consider an … environment where heterogeneous agents from various minority groups choose whether to acquire a majority language fully, partially …

likely to drop out of school and to commit crime. We show that a reform in Denmark in 1999, that expanded language training …

Despite the well-established importance of verbal engagement for infant language and cognitive development, many …, and that their infants have more advanced language and cognitive skills. We measure positive but noisy effects on parental …