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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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Immigrant fertility in the midst of intensified enforcement
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2017
This paper exploits the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of local and state immigration enforcement measures to identify their impact on undocumented immigrants' fertility. Using data from the 2005 through 2014 American Community Survey, we find that a one standard...
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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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Immigration Enforcement and Childhood Poverty in the United States
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2016
poverty of households with U.S. citizen children by 4 percent. The effect is robust to a number of identification tests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524961
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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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The deterrence effect of immigration enforcement in transit countries : evidence from Central American deportees
Martinez Flores, Fernanda - 2018
. However, the question whether these measures are successful in deterring undocumented migrants has not been previously … implemented by the Mexican government in 2014, has curbed intentions of unauthorized migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and … deterring undocumented migrants. …
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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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The fertility effect of laws granting undocumented migrants access to driving licenses in the United States
Gunadi, Christian - 2022
As of 2021, 16 U.S. States and the District of Columbia have implemented laws allowing undocumented migrants to acquire … licenses can affect undocumented migrants' fertility decisions. Using a differencein- differences strategy based on temporal … and geographical variation in the implementation of laws granting undocumented migrants access to driving licenses across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254229
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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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