This paper builds on Padilla and Cachanosky (2018) and examines if immigrants' educational attainments matter, particularly for immigrants with low educational attainments, when it comes to test the impact immigrants have on the economic freedom of the US states. Except in the area of government...

This paper examines whether the institutional quality of immigrants' origin countries matters when testing the relationship between immigration and the US states' economic freedom scores. Our results show that, in the short run, the relationship between economic freedom and immigrants from...

Concerns about immigration and its impact on the institutions of the countries that welcome immigrants are not new. In the United States, we find such concerns in the correspondences and writings of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton. Recently, in response to a...