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Cross-Generational Differences in Educational Outcomes in the Second Great Wave of Immigration
Ozek, Umut - 2016
We make use of a new data source – matched birth records and longitudinal student records in Florida – to study the degree to which student outcomes differ across successive immigrant generations. Specifically, we investigate whether first, second, and third generation Asian and Hispanic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991687
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Is the New Immigration Really so Bad?
Card, David - 2021
This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions: (1) Does immigration reduce … the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have immigrants who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Reform … from immigration and the rise of other education-related wage gaps. Overall, evidence that immigrants have harmed the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218827
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The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives
Hunt, Jennifer - 2012
Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107008
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Diversity in Schools : Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
Figlio, David; Giuliano, Paola; Marchingiglio, Riccardo; … - 2023
We study the effect of exposure to immigrants on the educational outcomes of US-born students, using a unique dataset combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school selection of US-born students, especially among...
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Intergenerational and Intragenerational Externalities of the Perry Preschool Project
Heckman, James J. - 2019
This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and lower levels of participation in crime, compared with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869048
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Intergenerational Health Mobility : Magnitudes and Importance of Schools and Place
Fletcher, Jason - 2019
Nascent research suggests intergenerational health mobility may be relatively high and non-genetic factors may make room for policy intervention. This project broadens this direction by considering heterogeneous intergenerational health mobility in spatial and contextual patterns. With 14,797...
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The Gift of Moving : Intergenerational Consequences of a Mobility Shock
Nakamura, Emi - 2016
We exploit a volcanic “experiment" to study the costs and benefits of geographic mobility. We show that moving costs (broadly defined) are very large and labor therefore does not flow to locations where it earns the highest returns. In our experiment, a third of the houses in a town were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987134
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Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?
Fairlie, Robert W.; Meyer, Bruce D. - 2021
Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native …-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed ….S. to examine the relationship between black self-employment and immigration in both 1980 and 1990. To control for permanent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247178
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Immigration and the Welfare State : Immigrant Participation in Means- Tested Entitlement Programs
Borjas, George J.; Hilton, Lynette - 2021
This paper documents the extent to which immigrants participate in the many programs that make up the welfare state. The immigrant- native difference in the probability of receiving cash benefits is small, but the gap widens once other programs are included in the analysis: 21 percent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213425
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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313355