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the circumstances these children are escaping, further attention to how the piecemeal approach to immigration enforcement …
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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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Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision- making. For example, in … citizenship or not. We find that the policy caused immigrant parents to (i) send their children to preschool more often; (ii … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enrol their children in preschool …
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. 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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sind die Ursache für diese Verschlechterung der Englischkenntnisse der Kinder. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass Eltern ihre … stellen wir fest, dass die Englischkenntnisse von in den USA geborenen Kindern mit mindestens einem undokumentierten … Kinder an einer Vorschule anmelden, sinkt. Die Zeit, welche Kinder in der Vorschulde verbringen, wird durch die Zeit, die die …
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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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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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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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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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For the first time in U.S. history, approximately 10 percent of the U.S. House of Representatives is Hispanic. The greater engagement of Hispanics in national politics has occurred after unprecedented growth in interior immigration enforcement disproportionately impacting Latinos. Using...
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