In order to shed light on the intergenerational consequences of immigration legislation, this paper investigates the impact of the largest amnesty program in the U.S. history (IRCA) on scholastic achievement of immigrants’ children. Using IRCA as a source of exogenous legal status, empirical...

Whether local minority population induces white flight to suburbs or private schools is a question of interest to many researchers. However, empirically identifying the causality is difficult due to residential sorting. Relying on a residential sorting model, I assume that people live in the...

The North China Plain (NCP) covers an area of around 328,000 km2 and is one of the most important regions of cereal crop production in China. Wheat and maize rotations and one season cotton are the most common cropping systems. The region contributes at an amount of about 50% to the countries...

Rural China provides a useful case for investigating how traditional lineage networks affect people’s political and economic opportunities in the new industrial economy. Since the 1950s, China’s restrictive migration policy has frozen the size of lineages; and the Commune system has...

This paper analyzes the impact of IRCA 1986, a U.S. amnesty, on immigrants’human capital development and labor market outcomes. Because of IRCA, the 1975-1981 arrivals were all legalized by 1990. However, many of the 1982-1986 arrivalsremained illegal. Using the California Latino immigrants in...