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 …

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 …

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

This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990–2010. To calculate … the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have … that the wages of return migrants are larger than those that the migrants would have obtained had they not migrated. …

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 …

We estimate the self-selection of Mexican migrants into and out of the United States in the 1920s. Officials recorded … migration in 1920. Migrants were positively selected on height compared to the Mexican population. We link these migrants to the … 1930 U.S. and Mexican censuses to obtain samples of permanent and return migrants and to estimate the selection into return …

education and migration. The model is estimated using data on Mexicans in the US from the CPS and on Mexicans residents in … Mexico from the Mexican census. The findings are that there is a significant loss of human capital faced by immigrants that …

Mexico. The authors focus on the effect of changes in economic conditions, migrant networks, and border enforcement on the … aliens from Mexico tend to be unskilled relative to U.S. natives and that economic conditions, networks, and border …

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