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 …

The past two decades have been characterized by an unprecedented increase in interior immigration enforcement and … infant births from the National Center of Health Statistics for the 2003 through 2016 period and a difference …-in-differences design, we compare the health outcomes of infants with likely undocumented mothers before and after the intensification of …

-reaching immigration enforcement program, affected the demand for safety net programs in the United States. We estimate the spillover …

cast a broad net and recognize the health policies embedded in immigration laws. Some immigration laws undermine health … policies designed to improve individual and population health. For example, immigration inadmissibility and deportability laws … immigration-reform debate, with Congress considering whether and how such reforms are helping to achieve health policy goals …

immigrants from different countries and arriving under different immigration policy regimes vary in their probability of over …-qualification. The results suggest that both country of origin (sending factor) and immigration policy (selecting factor) matter and that …

We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find … that immigration generates a sizable causal increase in votes for the centre-right coalition, which has a political … platform less favorable to immigrants. Additional findings are: big cities behave differently, with no impact of immigration on …

We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …

. In an effort to understand these gaps, Canada’s immigration policy and outcomes are contrasted to the Swedish immigration … experience. The nature of immigration and structural differences involving the domestic labour markets are hypothesized to …, the timing of immigrant entry with respect to the business cycle, and changes in the rates of immigration flows, that may …

Addressing unauthorized immigration is controversial. Countries have adopted a variety of legalization programs …