Journal article
Immigration enforcement and economic resources of children with likely unauthorized parents
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Over the past two decades immigration enforcement has grown exponentially in the United States. Using data from the 2005 through 2011 American Community Survey, we exploit the geographical and temporal variation in a novel index of the intensity of immigration enforcement to show how the average yearly increase in interior immigration enforcement over that period raised the likelihood of living in poverty of households with U.S. born children by 4%. The effect is robust to a number of identif...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 1.2MB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.12.004
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Public Economics Journal website
- Volume:
- 158
- Pages:
- 63-78
- Publication date:
- 2017-12-26
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-12-19
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0047-2727
- Source identifiers:
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817891
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- pubs:817891
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- Elsevier BV
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- Copyright © 2018 Elsevier B.V. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Elsevier at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.12.004
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