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 …

We develop a dynamic political-economic theory of welfare state and immigration policies, featuring three distinct … voting groups: skilled workers, unskilled workers, and old retirees. The essence of inter- and intra …

within the context of Representatives' roll call voting behavior in the U.S. House (1946-1994). The RD design implies that … variation to examine if Representatives' roll call voting patterns do not respond to large exogenous changes in the probability …

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 … US immigrants. Given this view, it seems all the more remarkable that the sources of immigration changed so dramatically …

We examine how increasing the number of visas available to potential migrants would affect unauthorized immigration …. This policy aims to serve as an additional deterrent to unauthorized immigration, but may be ineffective given that most … individuals are ineffective at current rates of legal immigration, but that increased legalization rates would amplify the …