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...

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...

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 arrivals remained illegal. Using the California Latino immigrants...

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...