This paper investigates the effect of the US Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA … ; policy reform ; illegal migrants ; Mexico ; migration policy …

estimate the effect of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) on immigrants' labor market outcomes using a triple … ; immigration reform …

assumed, both absolute and percentage losses from tort reform are small for infants in an asset value sense and that the prime …-aged working population is the group most negatively affected by tort reform. Maximum entropy quantile regressions highlight the … mean regression estimates. -- medical malpractice ; tort reform ; Texas closed claims ; damage caps ; quantile regression …

6-15) and their mothers. We find that the reform increased mothers' divorce, decreased family income and increased the …-4 being held back in school at the time of the reform. We then analyze outcomes of the same cohorts of children 10 years later …

Crime Report program for the period 1965-1998 and differences in the timing in the introduction of the reform, we find that … the Black sub-sample. Third, using the age at the time of the divorce law reform as a second source of variation to … from 15% to 40% depending on the specification and the age at the time of the reform. -- Unilateral divorce ; crime rates …

, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using … impacts. We conclude that welfare reform's effects are likely both more varied and more extensive than has been recognized …. -- treatment effect heterogeneity ; welfare reform ; distributional effects …