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Cato On Mariel
The Cato Institute’s Alex Nowrasteh posted a very interesting piece that reproduces and expands the findings in my Mariel paper. Although the title, “The Mariel Boatlift Raised the Wages of Low-Skilled...
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Chinese Graduate Students And The Productivity Of Their Advisors
Kirk Doran, Ying Shen, and I have just finished the final draft of our paper that looks at how the increase in the number of Chinese graduate students affected the productivity of their advisors in...
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The Wall Of Peace
I took a trip to the Red Bloc, and I don’t mean Texas and the South, after I finished college. I mean the old Red Bloc, specifically the Soviet Union and East Germany. I was very curious to find out if...
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Shaking Up The Narrative
Some people have asked me what I thought of the actions against illegal immigration that President Trump announced yesterday. As far as I can tell, he did exactly what he promised he was going to do,...
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Extreme Vetting
Not surprisingly, over-the-top and often erroneous reactions to President Trump’s executive order tightening refugee admissions are flooding the web today. So I thought it’d be useful to repost what I...
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We Wanted Workers On EconTalk
Russ Roberts and I talked about immigration and We Wanted Workers for over an hour back on December 20. Obviously, there’s no discussion of the various immigration-related brouhahas from the past week,...
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Who Is A Public Charge?
According to the Washington Post, the Trump administration is considering a number of changes in current immigration policy, focusing more on the economic side of things this time around. That WP...
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Op-Ed In New York Times
Today’s New York Times published my op-ed on “The Immigration Debate We Need.” Having worked on this for far too many years, I’m not holding my breath that this is, in fact, the immigration debate...
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Immigration And Poverty: Updated Facts
Last year, I published this paper discussing the link between immigrant poverty and the 1996 welfare reform legislation. It showed that although the legislation cut the number of immigrants receiving...
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Earnings of Undocumented Immigrants
I have a new paper that looks at how undocumented workers perform in the U.S. labor market. Here are some of the main findings: First, the age-earnings profile of undocumented workers lies far below...
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The Weekly Standard On We Wanted Workers
The Weekly Standard just published Peter Hansen’s careful review of We Wanted Workers. Hansen did a great job, neatly capturing the essence of what my book is about. My favorite part: it’s hard to...
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More Fake News On Mariel
It seems that the tremors set off by my Mariel paper (which first circulated privately almost two years ago; here is the published version) are still reverberating. I’m quickly losing track of all the...
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Still More On Mariel
After posting my reaction to the new critique of my Mariel paper yesterday, a few friends and many other people contacted me to ask if I had done any additional statistical work to back up my claim...
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Race And Mariel
I finally finished the paper that addresses the latest Mariel-related brouhaha–the claim that the large drop in the wage of high school dropouts in post-Mariel Miami was spuriously created by a change...
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The WSJ Weighs In On Mariel
The WSJ weekend edition just published a long essay (here’s an ungated pdf version) on the academic debate sparked by my reappraisal of the Mariel evidence. Ben Leubsdorf, the WSJ reporter, has been...
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The New Narrative: Less Immigration Is Bad
If one follows the political debate over a divisive issue for a long time, it is not rare to see ideological advocates switch to making arguments they would never have made years earlier. The political...
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Liberals and Immigration
Peter Beinart has an excellent essay in The Atlantic entitled How the Democrats Lost Their Way On Immigration. The article perfectly encapsulates the conundrum faced by liberals when they think about...
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Do We Need a RAISE?
I am away on a family vacation. But a couple of days ago, sitting on a beach at an undisclosed location, my iPhone started beeping and shaking. It turned out that Senators Cotton and Perdue had...
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EJMR, Wolfers, and I
So a new brouhaha has developed over some comments I made in a blog post last year when discussing the potential professional misconduct in L’Affaire Hoynes (see here for my initial comments, and here...
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The NYT Corrects the Wolfers Post
Here is the corrected post. As I noted in a long post that contains the entire email exchange between Justin Wolfers and me, Justin admitted making a “foolish mistake” when reporting my reaction to the...
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