This paper examines whether the institutional quality of immigrants' origin countries matters when testing the relationship between immigration and the US states' economic freedom scores. Our results show that, in the short run, the relationship between economic freedom and immigrants from...

This paper offers an economic and institutional assessment of 21st-century Latin American populism, particularly in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela. We find that populism fails to offer the significant economic and social improvements that leaders promise and voters hope for....