We examine the labor market consequences of an extensive campaign repatriating around 400,000 Mexicans in 1929-34. To … identify a causal effect, we instrument county level repatriations with the existence of a railway line to Mexico interacted …

destinations, but remained mostly statistically insignificant at the newer destinations. Mexicans at the traditional destinations …

officers assigned to prevent unauthorized migrants from entering a state decreases that state's share of Mexican immigrants by …

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 … Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely … educational attainment, (5) are increasingly likely to originate in southern Mexico and the Mexico City Metropolitan area, and (6 …

impact of random shocks on short-run shifts in selection into migration. The results suggest that the first Mexican migrants … crisis, migrants were positively selected relative to the military elite of the time. During the crisis, migrants became … selection in the post-crisis period was partially driven by persistent droughts in Mexico that increased the population at risk …

migrants. We use migration aspiration data from the Gallup World Poll Surveys which provide the preferred location choices of … Mexico but would also create heterogeneous immigration pressures from Mexico across potential foreign locations. In …

of time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women make up 63% to 84% of long …

Two million Mexicans were granted lawful permanent residency in the U.S. under the Immigration Reform and Control Act … this event. A decade after legalization, the share of Mexicans who are likely legal according to these variables shows …