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Title: Immigrants, Thank You for Your Service
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2020
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Abstract: This paper estimates the impact of service-for-citizenship incentives on the Army-enlistment propensities of non-US citizens from 1994 to 2007. I use Army administrative and Cur- rent Population Survey (CPS) data to estimate the effects of federal-immigration policy on noncitizen-enlistment rates using a generalized difference-in-differences model, exploiting variation in unanticipated immigration-policy changes. I find that peacetime enlistment for 17 to 26-year-old high-school equivalents increased by 133% after an asylum-to-green-card policy. I find that wartime enlistment for 17 to 26-year-old more-educated noncitizens 1) increased by 243% just after 9/11; 2) decreased by 367% after the Patriot Act; and 3) increased by 500% after the enactment of a wartime service-for-expedited-citizenship policy. On average, noncitizen enlistment increased by 0.44% relative to US citizens from 1994 to August 2001, significant at the 0.10 level.
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Authors: Himmelberger, Liesel
Institution: University of Georgia
Department: Economics
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Pages: 1-149
Data Collections: IPUMS CPS
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration
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