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

Scherman, Gustav LU (2020) NEKN01 20201
Department of Economics
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.
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author
Scherman, Gustav LU
supervisor
organization
course
NEKN01 20201
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
IRCA, undocumented immigrants, educational attainment
language
English
id
9017894
date added to LUP
2020-08-29 10:36:59
date last changed
2020-08-29 10:36:59
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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.}},
  author       = {{Scherman, Gustav}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The Effect on Educational Attainment of Legalizing Undocumented Hispanic Immigrants in the U.S. Evidence from IRCA of 1986}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}