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Title: The Effect on Educational Attainment of Legalizing Undocumented Hispanic Immigrants in the U.S. Evidence from IRCA of 1986

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2020

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Abstract: This paper analyzes the effect of the amnesty given under IRCA of 1986 on the educational attainment of Hispanic undocumented immigrants. Data was collected from the IPUMS USA database and consists of cross-sectional microdata from seven U.S. censuses. The thesis exploits the cut-off year of 1982 for being granted amnesty in a difference-in-difference strategy. The results suggest that IRCA affected the likelihood of having at least one year of education at the tertiary level by 8.1 percentage points. The effect on the likelihood of having at least four years of tertiary education is estimated to have been 4.4 percentage points.

Url: http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/9017894

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Authors: Scherman, Gustav

Institution: Lund University

Department: Department of Economics

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Publisher Location: Lund, Sweden

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Migration and Immigration

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