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In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants and its impact on college enrollment, tuition costs, student financial aid, and indebtedness

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Sparber, Chad - 2012

The 1996 Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act barred states from giving unlawful residents postsecondary education benefits that states do not offer to U.S. citizens. In contrast to this federal law, several states have passed legislation explicitly allowing undocumented immigrants to pay...

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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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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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Intermarriage amid immigration status uncertainty : evidence from DACA

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Wang, Chunbei - 2023

from deportation and work permits. In 2017, the Trump Administration announced it would end DACA - an announcement …

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Gender differences in native preferences towards undocumented and legal immigration : evidence from San Diego

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Puttitanun, Thitima - 2009

. Furthermore, native views about immigration are known to vary by gender. Yet, most surveys do not inquire native men and women … preferences towards immigration appear to significantly differ by gender as well as according to immigrants' legal status. In … integration and economic assimilation of undocumented immigrants possibly related to the alleged prejudice factor -- Gender …

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Complements or substitutes? : task specialization by gender and nativity in Spain

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Rica, Sara de la - 2009

wages of natives in the U.S. Yet, despite the significant degree of occupational segregation by gender regardless of workers … the task specialization and occupational distribution of natives of the same gender. -- Immigration ; gender ; task …

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De facto immigration enforcement, ICE raid awareness, and worker engagement

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Antman, Francisca M. - 2021

We explore whether fear of apprehension affects immigrants' labor market engagement by examining how ICE removals due to immigration violations and increased awareness of immigration raids impact their labor market outcomes. We find that ICE deportations are associated with reductions in the...

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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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Immigration policy and Hispanics' willingness to run for office

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bucheli, José R. - 2020

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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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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