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Immigration enforcement and childhood poverty in the United States
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2016
poverty of households with U.S. citizen children by 4 percent. The effect is robust to a number of identification tests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500545
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Immigration enforcement and economic resources of children with likely unauthorized parents
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - In: Journal of public economics 158 (2018), pp. 63-78
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The changing family structure of american children with unauthorized parents
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2017
to gauge its impact on children's propensity to live without their parents in households headed by relatives or friends … socioeconomic costs of being raised without parents or in a single-headed household, gaining a better understanding of the … collateral damage of heightened enforcement on the families to which these children belong is well warranted. …
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Gender, educational attainment, and the impact of parental migration on children left behind
Antman, Francisca M. - 2012
that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes …Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548641
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Green cards and the location choices of immigrants in the United States, 1971 - 2000
Jaeger, David A. (contributor) - 2006
This paper documents where immigrants who enter the U.S. with different types of visas ("green cards") choose to live initially and what determines those location choices. Using population data on immigrants from the Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1971 to 2000, matched to data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328061
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Green Cards and the Location Choices of Immigrants in the United States, 1971-2000
Jaeger, David A. - 2006
This paper documents where immigrants who enter the U.S. with different types of visas (quot;green cardsquot;) choose to live initially and what determines those location choices. Using population data on immigrants from the Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1971 to 2000, matched to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780019
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Ethnicity and the immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina (contributor) - 2009
This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796343
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Welfare usage in the US : does immigrant birthplace and immigration status matter?
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth; Oyolola, Maharouf - 2009
The study of welfare participation in the U.S. prior to the 1996 welfare reform act and even afterward has focused on comparisons between native born and immigrant households. Analyses that have gone beyond this broad classification have focused on comparisons across race or with particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931975
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Parenting promotes social mobility within and across generations
García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2022
their twenties. The iconic programs are omnibus in nature and offer many services to children and their parents. We compare … intergenerational effects on their children. A study of focused home-visiting programs that target parents enables us to isolate a …This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within …
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