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It is obviously extremely hard to pin down a solid figure for how many people are going to be displaced due to the challenges posed by a warming planet. But virtually every publication I have read on the challenges of global warming rank the issue of “climate refugees” as both a serious political and economic […]

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Ran into this on the twitter machine. My grandparents and their parents came over here in various stages in the early 1900s, including some family members who seemed to have come illegally in the 1930s.  Reprinted in full below: It’s a trope to say America has a long tradition of welcoming immigrants. This is only partially […]

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In fact I’m not at all clear how my family got to America. I think three generations above me had people illegally sneaking into the US from both Canada and I think parts south. But my family doesn’t quite know. But as sure as the ocean is salty, my kind was not much liked – […]

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So we relaxed restrictions on what Cuban baseball players have to do in order to play baseball in America. The argument goes that Cubans placed themselves in harm’s way to make the dangerous journey here, and that they are really productive at their jobs once in America, and that we wish for them to be […]

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Immigrant Assimilation

There is a well known literature on how well (very) the children and grandchildren assimilate into the American economy and culture. What is less well-known are how other aspects of America end up rubbing off on the progeny of immigrants? In this study on the heritability of health characteristics, the authors find that even factors […]

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Borjas strikes back in the next round of paper(s) on the impact of the Mariel Boatlift on American wages.  You would not be shocked to find that he finds that the immigrants were harmful to Floridians: This fundamental error in data construction (wintercow: in the Round Three paper) contaminates the analysis and helps hide the […]

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Of course, I will not share my thoughts at Thanksgiving … but here goes (start at 1:14 if you don’t like stories. One reason I love folk music is the stories): Please do NOT interpret this to suggest that I think this is an open and shut issue, or that there are not legitimate questions […]

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About the only useful contribution I can make to the immigration question, at this point is to lament one thing about the current proceedings. While this is all great political controversy and surely educational for those folks who worry about precedent and the limits of constitutional authority and what the original intent was and what […]

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This paper hit my inbox this morning. It asks what impact immigration has on the ability of natives to complete high school in the United States between 1940 and 2010. Two possible channels are examined. First, the conventional view is that immigrants who go to high school take resources that would otherwise be dedicated to […]

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No, I am not reporting on the fact that net Mexican immigration to the United States is now zero. I am among the minority who find this unfortunate, though happy that the economy in Mexico is vibrant enough to attract folks back home or keep them from leaving. I’d like to point out another under-reported […]

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