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Title: THE SORT OF AMERICANS: AMERICAN CHILDREN OF UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS
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Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: Does a migrant parents documentation status affect American offsprings educational outcomes? I exploit the exogenous discontinuity in likelihood of legal status generated by the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which stated that immigrants proving continuous residence in the U.S. since 1/1/82 could legalize. In reduced form results using 2000 census data, I find American 14 year-olds whose parents were likely IRCA-eligible immigrants are 8.6 percentage points more likely to have reached high school than peers with likely ineligible immigrant parents. One key channel through which parental status seems to affect childrens education is through fathers labor market outcomes.
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Authors: Le Brun, Anne
Publisher: Harvard University
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Migration and Immigration
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