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Immigrant Fertility in the Midst of Intensified Enforcement

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroy, Esther - 2017

This paper exploits the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of local and state immigration enforcement measures to identify their impact on undocumented immigrants’ fertility. Using data from the 2005 through 2014 American Community Survey, we find that a one standard...

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Did OPT Policy Changes Help Steer and Retain Foreign Talent into Stem?

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Furtado, Delia; Xu, Huanan - 2018

Academia and the public media have emphasized the link between STEM majors and innovation, as well as the need for STEM graduates in the U.S. economy. Given the proclivity of international students to hold STEM degrees, immigration policy may be used to attract and retain high-skilled STEM...

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Refugee Admissions and Public Safety: Are Refugee Settlement Areas More Prone to Crime?

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia; Pozo, Susan - 2018

According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of refugees worldwide rose to 21.3 million in 2015. Yet, resistance to the welcoming of refugees appears to have grown. The possibility that refugees may commit acts of terrorism or engage in criminal behavior has served as...

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Caught in the US subprime meltdown 2007/2008: Germany loses its wallet but escapes major Harm

Kooths, Stefan; Rieger, Matthias - 2008

devaluations of financial assets on value-added and employment in the financial industry. In the second part of the paper the …

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New evidence on the motherhood wage gap

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Kimmel, Jean - 2008

Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we assess the role of employment-based health insurance … to account for the self-selection and, thus, endogeneity of having an employment-based health insurance offer. We find … that, once the endogeneity of having an employment-based health insurance offer is accounted for, the motherhood wage gap …

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Remittances to Latin America from migrants in the United States: assessing the impact of amnesty programs

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Mazzolari, Francesca - 2009

The magnitude of remittance flows to Latin America exceeds the combined inflows of foreign direct investment and official development assistance to the region. Since the United States is the destination country of the vast majority of migrants from Mexico, as well as from other Latin American...

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Cohort-level sex ratio effects on women's labor force participation

Grossbard, Shoshana Amyra; Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2007

It follows from a number of theoretical models of marriage that the scarcer women are relative to men, i.e. the higher the sex ratio, the less married women are likely to participate in the labor force. Such sex ratio effects may be stronger among less educated women. These predictions are...

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The impact of amnesty on labor market outcomes: A panel study using the legalized population survey

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - 2011

, employment fell and unemployment rose for newly legalized men relative to the comparison group of already legal U.S. residents …. For women, employment also fell and transitions out of the workforce increased among the newly legalized population …. Increasing returns to skill, as captured by English proficiency, only played an important role in explaining the employment of …

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In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants and its impact on college enrollment, tuition costs, student financial aid, and indebtedness

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Sparber, Chad - 2012

The 1996 Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act barred states from giving unlawful residents postsecondary education benefits that states do not offer to U.S. citizens. In contrast to this federal law, several states have passed legislation explicitly allowing undocumented immigrants to pay...

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