Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA

Kuka, Elira; Shenhav, Na’ama; Shih, Kevin

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“…The first finding, that health improved in the short term, is consistent with past research on the immediate post-DACA period, which found that DACA increased high school graduation rates, labor-force participation, and wages and decreased poverty. 14,15,17,36 Existing studies also link DACA to improvements in the mental health of DACA-eligible immigrants 19,20 and their children 18 in the short-term post-policy period. A variety of mechanisms related to socioeconomic status and socioemotional transformations may explain improvements to health in the shortterm period following DACA's announcement.…”

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“…[1][2][3][4][5] By granting eligible undocumented immigrants protection from deportation and some fundamental rights, DACA may have improved the health of participants and their children. [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] However, DACA recipients do not have access to permanent legal status or a guarantee that their temporary status will remain in place. Indeed, the program's future has been highly uncertain since 2015, leading one journalist to describe the experience as a "political and legal limbo[,] …a kind of purgatory [for DACA recipients]."…”

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“…A number of studies have examined DACA's short-term impacts and found overwhelmingly positive effects in the two to three years following its announcement. These studies have linked DACA to improved high school graduation rates and employment outcomes, [14][15][16] decreased rates of poverty, 17 lower teen birth rates, 14 improvements to mental health, [18][19][20] and stronger feelings of inclusion and belonging. 21 One study found that DACA's effects may be intergenerational-specifically, that diagnoses of adjustment and anxiety disorders declined among children of DACA-eligible immigrants in Oregon in the three years following the program's creation.…”

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Uncertainty About DACA May Undermine Its Positive Impact On Health For Recipients And Their Children

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Undocumented immigrants and their children have worse selfreported health than documented immigrants and US citizens do. Evidence suggests that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which was created in 2012 by President Barack Obama and which granted some rights to undocumented immigrants who arrived as children, improved the well-being of recipients and their children in the first three years after the program's introduction. However, DACA is subject to executive discretion, and the US presidential campaign that began in 2015 introduced substantial uncertainty regarding the program's future. We examined whether DACA's health benefits persisted beyond 2015 using the 2007-17 waves of the California Health Interview Survey and dynamic treatment effects models. Our results show that selfreported health improved for Latina/o DACA-eligible immigrants and their children from 2012 to 2015 but worsened after 2015. Our results suggest that the political climate of the 2016 presidential election may have underscored the politically contingent nature of the DACA program and eroded the program's health benefits for eligible immigrants and their children.

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“…In the first year of DACA, the take‐up rate was around 30% (Kuka, Na'ama, and Shih ). Recent data from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) show that, as of August 2018, 700,000 people in the United States were DACA recipients.…”

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A Pathway to Homeownership? Evidence From the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

Sharpe

2019

Contemporary Economic Policy

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The impact of legal status on economic outcomes has been well documented in the literature with most research focused on labor market outcomes such as wages and occupational mobility. In this paper, I utilize the exogenous variation created the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 to estimate the effect of amnesty polices on homeownership among undocumented immigrants. Using a regression discontinuity framework, the results suggest that the IRCA increased homeownership rates of eligible immigrants by around 4 percentage points relative to ineligible immigrants. Moreover, an extension to the main analysis suggests that immigrants ineligible for the IRCA adjusted their household formation by increasing the rates of coresidency. (JEL J61, R23, R31)

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“…For studies of the programs' effects on participants' economic outcomes, see, for example, Amuedo-Dorantes and Antman (2016) andKuka, Shenhav, and Shih (2018) on DACA and Orrenius and Zavodny (2015b) on TPS.…”

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Do Immigrants Threaten U.S. Public Safety?

Orrenius

Zavodny

2019

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Opponents of immigration often claim that immigrants, particularly those who are unauthorized, are more likely than U.S. natives to commit crimes and that they pose a threat to public safety. There is little evidence to support these claims. In fact, research overwhelmingly indicates that immigrants are less likely than similar U.S. natives to commit violent and property crimes, and that areas with more immigrants have similar or lower rates of violent and property crimes than areas with fewer immigrants. There are relatively few studies specifically of criminal behavior among unauthorized immigrants, but the limited research suggests that these immigrants also have a lower propensity to commit crime than their nativeborn peers, although possibly a higher propensity than legal immigrants. Evidence about legalization programs is consistent with these findings, indicating that a legalization program reduces crime rates. Meanwhile, increased border enforcement, which reduces unauthorized immigrant inflows, has mixed effects on crime rates. A large-scale legalization program, which is not currently under serious consideration, has more potential to improve public safety and security than several other policies that have recently been proposed or implemented.

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Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA

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Uncertainty About DACA May Undermine Its Positive Impact On Health For Recipients And Their Children

Uncertainty About DACA May Undermine Its Positive Impact On Health For Recipients And Their Children

A Pathway to Homeownership? Evidence From the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

Do Immigrants Threaten U.S. Public Safety?

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