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Estimating the Potential Impact of Combined Race and Ethnicity Reporting on Long-Term Earnings Statistics
McKinney, Kevin L.; Abowd, John M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We use place of birth information from the Social Security Administration linked to earnings data from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program and detailed race and ethnicity data from the 2010 Census to study how long-term earnings differentials vary by place of birth for different...
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Overweight Grandsons and Grandfathers' Starvation Exposure
Costa, Dora L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Much of the increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity has been in developing countries with a history of …
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Capacity Strain and Racial Disparities in Hospital Mortality
Singh, Manasvini; Venkataramani, Atheendar S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A growing literature has documented racial disparities in health care. We argue that racial disparities may be magnified when hospitals operate at capacity, when behavioral and structural conditions associated with poor patient outcomes - e.g., limited provider cognitive bandwidth or reliance on...
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The Political Effects of Immigration : Culture or Economics?
Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant parties and lowering preferences for redistribution and diversity …
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda
Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of … immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers. We provide updated statistics on the share of US entrepreneurs who … immigrant-founded firms. This higher propensity towards innovation is only partly explained by differences in education levels …
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How Good are Proxies for Legal Status? : Evidence from the Legalization of Two Million Mexicans
Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Lewis, Ethan; Zhang, Chengguo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Two million Mexicans were granted lawful permanent residency in the U.S. under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). We find that occupation and program use variables in a prominent proxy for legal status poorly detect this event. A decade after legalization, the share of...
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The Intergenerational Effects of Permanent Legal Status
Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Cornell, Paul; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States using variation from the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Our empirical approach compares trends in birth outcomes for foreign-born Mexican mothers across...
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Dreaming of Leaving the Nest? Immigration Status and the Living Arrangements of DACAmented
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study investigates the effects of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on the living arrangements and 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...
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Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes toward Newcomers
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration …
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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...
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