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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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Is immigration enforcement shaping immigrant marriage patterns?
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; Wang, … - 2019
This paper identifies intermarriage (between non-citizens and citizens) as an important response mechanism to intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of interior immigration enforcement...
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Immigration enforcement and foster care placements
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2017
alone. Children enter the foster care system when their parents are apprehended, deported and unable to care for them. We … the share of Hispanic children in foster care anywhere between 15 and 21 percent. The effects appear to be driven by the …
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Police trust and domestic violence : evidence from immigration policies
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2019
Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the Violence against Women Act (VAWA) allows battered immigrants to petition for legal status without relying on abusive U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident spouses, we find...
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Labor market impacts of states issuing of driving licenses to undocumented immigrants
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2018
Twelve U.S. states, plus the District of Columbia, have recently enacted measures granting undocumented immigrants access to driving licenses. We exploit the state and temporal variation in the issuing of state driving licenses to undocumented immigrants to estimate its impact on these...
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Immigration enforcement and infant health
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Churchill, Brandyn F.; Song, Yang - 2020
importance of current immigration policies in shaping the birth outcomes of many American children. …
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Spillover effects of immigration policies on children's human capital
Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2022
. Changes in parental investment behavior cause this reduction in children's English skills. Parents are less likely to enroll … at home. Parents also reduce time spent on leisure and socializing, providing children with fewer opportunities to …We study the spillover effects of immigration enforcement policies on children's human capital. Exploiting the temporal …
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Immigration policy and the rise of self-employment among Mexican immigrants
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2020
Over the past two decades, the U.S. has seen a drastic growth in self-employment among Mexican immigrants, the largest immigrant population in the country. This is an interesting yet puzzling trend, in stark contrast to the stagnated growth of self-employment among other disadvantaged minority...
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U.S. immigration policy and immigrant fertility
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2020
Using the 2005-2014 waves of the American Community Survey - a period characterized by the rapid expansion of interior immigration enforcement initiatives across the United States, we evaluate the impact of a tougher policy environment on undocumented immigrants' fertility. We find that a one...
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The value of a green card in the U.S. marriage market : a tale of chain migration?
Bansak, Cynthia; Dziadula, Eva; Zavodny, Madeline - 2023
This study examines the impact of having a clear path to lawful permanent resident status, or a "green card," and naturalized citizenship on marital status and spousal characteristics among Chinese immigrants in the United States. A series of U.S. policy changes in the early 1990s made all...
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