The effect of immigration shocks on native fertility outcomes: evidence from a natural experiment

Seah, Kelvin

doi:10.1186/s40176-018-0126-6

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“…Subsequent labor market studies by Borjas (2017), Clemens and Hunt (2019), and Peri and Yasenov (2019) have built on the foundation laid by Card (1990) using modern causal inference approaches. The Mariel Boatlift is also used to examine immigration's effects on crime, voting patterns, and native fertility (Billy & Packard, 2020;Seah, 2018;Thompson, 2022).…”

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Are economic arguments against immigration missing the boat? The fiscal effects of the Mariel Boatlift

Yao

Bolen

Williamson

2022

Southern Economic Journal

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Opponents of migration argue that natives bear the fiscal costs of immigration. Estimates suggest the longrun fiscal effect of immigration for local governments is negative, largely due to the costs of educating immigrant children. We test whether migration affects local government fiscal outcomes using a synthetic control method and the 1980 Mariel Boatlift as a natural experiment. We find no effect of the mass influx of migrants to Miami on various fiscal outcome measures, suggesting concerns over the fiscal effects of immigration are "missing the boat."

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Are economic arguments against immigration missing the boat? The fiscal effects of the Mariel Boatlift

Yao

Bolen

Williamson

2022

Southern Economic Journal

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“…It also increases the probability of working for women with children. Seah (2018), on the other hand, finds a short run negative impact of immigration on the fertility of native women right after the Miami boatlift, mainly driven by the increase in housing prices and rents.…”

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“… 4 In the very particular, but extensively exploited, case of the Miami boat lift, Seah (2018) finds a short-run negative impact of immigration on the fertility of native women, mainly driven by the increase in housing prices and rents.…”

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Immigrant supply of marketable child care and native fertility in Italy

Mariani

Rosati

2021

J. Dem. Econ.

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The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past, large inflows of low-skilled migrants have substantially increased the supply of child-care services. In this paper, we examine if immigration has actually affected fertility exploiting the natural experiment occurred in Italy in 2007, when a large inflow of migrants—many of them specialized in the supply of child care—arrived unexpectedly. With a difference-in-differences method, we show that immigrant female workers have increased native births by a number that ranges roughly from 2% to 4%. We validate our result by the implementation of an instrumental variable approach and several robustness tests, all concluding that the increase in the supply of child-care services by immigrant women has positively affected native fertility.

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“…Furtado and Hock (2010) andSeah (2018) document that the fertility of native women might be influenced by immigrant supply shocks, further complicating their labor supply decision.…”

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