Amuedo-Dorantes, C; Arenas-Arroyo, E; Sevilla, A; (2018) Immigration enforcement and economic resources of children with likely unauthorized parents. Journal of Public Economics , 158 pp. 63-78. 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.12.004.

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Abstract

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 identification tests accounting for the potential endogeneity of enforcement policies and residential location of immigrants, and is primarily driven by police-based immigration enforcement measures adopted at the local level, such as 287(g) agreements.

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