Did the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act Reduce the State's Unauthorized Immigrant Population?

Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1835322

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“…Outmigration in response to E‐Verify mandates is consistent with Bohn et al (2014), who found that Arizona's universal E‐Verify mandate led to meaningful reduction in the share of population comprised of prime‐aged non‐citizen Hispanics with at most a high school degree. Similarly, Orrenius and Zavodny (2016) found that universal E‐Verify mandates led to a reduction in the number of new and recent likely unauthorized immigrants residing in a state.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…This paper contributes to the literature on immigrants' access to insurance by demonstrating a plausibly causal link between E‐Verify mandates and health insurance coverage (Borjas, 2003; Bronchetti, 2014; Buchmueller et al, 2008; Dillender, 2017). Additionally, it adds to a growing body of work on the effect of E‐Verify mandates on likely unauthorized immigrants which has thus far focused primarily on employment outcomes and migration decisions (Amuedo‐Dorantes & Bansak, 2014; Bohn et al, 2014; Orrenius & Zavodny, 2015; Orrenius & Zavodny, 2016). It also contributes to a broader literature on the spillover effects of immigration policy (Amuedo‐Dorantes et al, 2018; 2020; Bitler & Hoynes, 2011; East, 2020; Watson, 2014) by showing suggestive evidence that children with likely unauthorized parents and native adults in mixed‐status households lost access to health insurance.…”

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E‐Verify mandates and unauthorized immigrants' health insurance coverage

Churchill

2021

Southern Economic Journal

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Over the last two decades, state and local governments have adopted policies requiring employers to electronically verify (E‐Verify) the work eligibility of their new hires to disrupt unauthorized immigrants' access to the formal labor market. These E‐Verify mandates previously enjoyed bipartisan support and are likely to be included in comprehensive immigration reform discussions between the Biden administration and GOP. I show in this paper that state E‐Verify mandates are associated with a 5‐percentage point reduction in the probability that likely unauthorized immigrants are employed and a 2‐percentage point reduction in the probability that they have employer‐sponsored insurance. However, these changes are limited to one period after implementation. In all remaining periods, the relationships are not distinguishable from zero. I show that this pattern can be explained by selective outmigration of otherwise unemployed and uninsured likely unauthorized immigrants. By preventing unauthorized immigrants from moving to a more favorable policy environment, a nationwide E‐Verify mandate would likely further limit unauthorized immigrants' access to private health insurance.

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E‐Verify mandates and unauthorized immigrants' health insurance coverage

Churchill

2021

Southern Economic Journal

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“…They used the combination of other regions in Spain to build a "synthetic" control region which resembles economic characteristics of the Basque Country before the outset of terrorism attack. After that, the method has been widely applied in econometric of policy evaluations including studying the effects of laws [11], legalized prostitution [12] and immigration policy [13].…”

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Synthetic Control, Synthetic Interventions, and COVID-19 spread: Exploring the impact of lockdown measures and herd immunity

Bayat,

Morrin,

Wang

et al. 2020

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The synthetic control method is an empirical methodology for causal inference using observational data. By observing the spread of COVID-19 throughout the world, we analyze the data on the number of deaths and cases in different regions using the power of prediction, counterfactual analysis, and synthetic interventions of the synthetic control and its extensions. We observe that the number of deaths and cases in different regions would have been much smaller had the lockdowns been imposed earlier and had the re-openings been done later, especially among indoor bars and restaurants. We also analyze the speculated impact of herd immunity on the spread given the population of each region and show that lockdown policies have a very strong impact on the spread regardless of the level of prior infections.Our most up-to-date code, model, and data can be found on github: https://github.com/niloofarbayat/ COVID19-synthetic-control-analysis

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“…Our paper is also related to the fast growing literature that uses SC to estimate causal effects. Examples include: Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003), Kleven et al (2013), Bohn et al (2014, Pinotti (2015), Acemoglu et al (2016), Eliason and Lutz (2018), Cunningham and Shah (2018), Andersson (2019), Peri andYasenov (2019), andPotrafke et al (2020).…”

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Potrafke¹,

Wüthrich²

2020

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We examine how Green governments influence macroeconomic, education, and environmental outcomes. Our empirical strategy exploits that the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan gave rise to an unanticipated change in government in the German state Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2011. The incumbent rightwing government was replaced by a leftwing government led by the Green party. We use the synthetic control method to select control states against which Baden-Wuerttemberg's outcomes can be compared. The results do not suggest that the Green government influenced macroeconomic outcomes. The Green government implemented education policies that caused comprehensive schools to become larger. We find no evidence that the Green government influenced CO2 emissions, particulate matter emissions, or increased energy usage from renewable energies overall. An intriguing result is that the share of wind power usage decreased relative to the estimated counterfactual. Intra-ecological conflicts and realities in public office are likely to have prevented the Green government from implementing drastic policy changes.

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Did the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act Reduce the State's Unauthorized Immigrant Population?

Cited by 28 publications

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E‐Verify mandates and unauthorized immigrants' health insurance coverage

E‐Verify mandates and unauthorized immigrants' health insurance coverage

Synthetic Control, Synthetic Interventions, and COVID-19 spread: Exploring the impact of lockdown measures and herd immunity

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